Historical markers within the Arizona Department of Transportation right of way

HISTORICAL MARKERS
WITHIN THE
ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
RIGHT OF WAY
PREPARED BY:
ROADSIDE DEVELOPMENT SECTION
E. LEROY BRADY
MANAGER
HISTORICAL MARKERS
WITHIN THE
ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
RIGHT OF WAY
PREPARED BY:
ROADSIDE DEVELOPMENT SECTION
SPECIAL ACKNOWLEDGMENT IS GIVEN TO THE STAFF FOR PROVIDING ASSISTANCE IN THE PREPARATION OF THIS DOCUMENT.
FIELD INFORMATION COLLECTED BY:
ADOT DISTRICTS
FLAGSTAFF PRESCOTT
GLOBE SAFFORD
HOLBROOK TUCSON
KINGMAN YUMA
PHOENIX
SPECIAL ADMINISTRATIVE GUIDANCE:
E. LEROY BRADY
APRIL 1, 1997
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NOTICE THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (ADOT) ASSUMES NO LIABILITY FOR THE CONTENTS OF THIS DOCUMENT, OR USE THEREOF. THE CONTENTS OF THIS DOCUMENT REFLECT THE ACCURACY OF DATA COLLECTED FROM FIELD INVESTIGATION AND DOES NOT NECESSARILY REFLECT OFFICIAL VIEWS OR POLICY OF ADOT.
THIS DOCUMENT DOES NOT CONSTITUTE A FORMAT, STANDARD OR PUBLIC VIEW OF HISTORICAL EVENTS.
ADOT DOES NOT ENDORSE ANY HISTORIC EVENT, CULTURE, VIEW OR NAMES. THEY APPEAR HEREIN ONLY BECAUSE THEY ARE CONSIDERED ESSENTIAL TO THE OBJECT OF THIS DOCUMENT.
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INTRODUCTION
THE BASIC PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT IS TO LIST ALL HISTORICAL MARKERS MAINTAINED BY THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (ADOT) AND LOCATED WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT’S RIGHT OF WAY. PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS THE HISTORIC MARKER TITLE AND TEXT. HISTORIC MARKERS ARE LOCATED AND LISTED HEREIN BY HIGHWAY ROUTE NUMBER AND ROUTE MILEPOST (SHOWN TO NEAREST MILEPOST, MAY NOT BE LOCATED AT THAT EXACT LOCATION). THIS INFORMATION IS PROVIDED FOR THE USE OF THE TRAVELING PUBLIC. IT IS PRESENTED IN LARGE PRINT, WITHOUT CHARGE, TO PERSONS WHO HAVE A DISABILITY THAT SUBSTANTIALLY LIMITS THEIR ABILITY TO READ HISTORICAL MARKERS. ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS DOCUMENT ARE AVAILABLE AT ROADSIDE DEVELOPMENT SECTION, ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, 205 SOUTH 17TH AVENUE, MAIL DROP 617E, PHOENIX, ARIZONA 85007, PHONE (602) 712-7357.
PREVIOUS HISTORICAL MARKER INVENTORIES WERE USED AS REFERENCE MATERIAL TO VERIFY CURRENT MARKERS TEXT AND LOCATIONS.
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B-8 MP 000 TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARIZONA HISTORICAL MARKERS
March 19, 1997
MILE
ROUTE POST TITLE
B-8 000 Yuma Crossing
B-8 000 Blue Star Memorial Highway
B-8 000.2 Arizona’s Territorial Prison
I-8 014.5 El Camino Del Diablo (The Devil’s Highway)
B-10 305 Mormon Battalion, LDS Church
B-10 364 Old Fort Bowie
I-10 EB 182.2 Gila River Indian Reservation
I-10 WB 182.2 Gila River Indian Reservation
I-10 219 Mormon Batallion Trail #71
I-10 219 Battle of Picacho
I-10 219 Civil War Monument
I-10 320 Council Rocks
I-10 EB 388 Percy Jones Jr., Memorial
I-10 WB 388 Percy Jones Jr., Memorial
I-17 242 Black Canyon Highway (Old SR 69)
I-17 284 Copper Canyon Route to the Verde Valley
I-17 285 Camp Verde
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B-19 004 Blue Star Memorial Highway
B-19 005 Pete Kitchen
B-19 059 Mission San Xavier DelBac
B-19 062 First Municipal Airport in the United States
I-19 009 Ghost Town of Calabasas
I-19 022 Tubac
B-40 163 Bill Williams Mountain
I-40 EB 253 Sunset Crossing
I-40 EB 266 Sunset Crossing on the Little Colorado River
I-40 WB 358 Max Ortega
I-40 WB 358 Dominguez-Escalante Expedition 1776-1976
US 60 018 The Last Camp of Hi Jolly
US 60 019 Tyson Wells, Old Stage Station
US 60 056 Salome, Where She Danced
US 60 106 Wickenburg Massacre
US 60 107 Vulture Mine
US 60 109 Crypt of Henry Wickenburg
US 60 110 Hassayampa Legend
US 60 166 Original Site of Phoenix
US 60 168 S (Frenchy) Sawyer
US 60 170 Dedicated to Early Settlers
US 60 170 USA Work Program - W.P.A.
Hunt Bass Hatchery
US 60 170 Clark Dam - Hunt Bass Hatchery
US 60 171 USA Work Program (W.P.A.)
US 60 171 Governor Hunt’s Tomb
v US 60 171 Hayden’s Ferry
US 60 171 Memorial to Anderson Moeur
US 60 171 Old Tempe Bridge (1913)
US 60 171 Tempe Bridge (1931)
US 60 195 Legend of the Lost Dutchman Mine
US 60 204 Jefferson Davis Highway
US 60 223 Picket Post Mountain
US 60 246 Miami-Superior Highway
US 60 248 Old Dominion Mine
US 60 265 McMillenville Ghost Mining Camp
US 60 290 Geological Display
US 60 294 Salt River Canyon Recreation Area
US 60 297 Becker Butte Lookout
US 60 297 Memorial to Julius W. Becker
US 60 387 Madonna of the Trail
SR 64 268 Grand Canyon Airline Tragedy
SR 66 052 Lt. Edward Fitzgerald Beale
SR 66 052 Wagon Route
SR 66 052 Unitd States Army -- Beale’s Springs
SR 66 276 Daughters of Utah Pioneers
SR 66 325 Navajo Springs
SR 69 247 The Woolsey Trail/Old Black Canyon Road
SR 69 280 Old Fort Woolsey
SR 69 283 Old Orchard Ranch
SR 69 293 Prescott
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US 70 273.1 Apacheland Old San Carlos
US 70 302 Geronimo
US 70 306 Fort Thomas
US 70 306 Melvin Jones
US 70 341 The Gila Valley
US 70 344 Solomon (Solomonville)
US 70 347 General Kearney’s Army of the West
US 70 356 Lorenzo and Seth Wright
US 70 364 Horatio Harris Merrill
SR 73 333 Kinishba Ruins
SR 75 392 Apache Grove
SR 77 080 Canada Del Oro
SR 77 161 El Capitan Pass
SR 79 115 Tom Mix Memorial
SR 79 136 Poston’s Butte
SR 80 301 Mormon Battalion
SR 80 314 Memorial to Veterans, Pioneers, Settlers
SR 80 316 Boothill Graveyard
SR 80 317 Tombstone Courthouse
SR 80 319 Tombstone Historic District
SR 80 341 Discovery of Ore
SR 80 343 The Lavender Pit Mine
SR 80 356 Mormon Battalion - Smith Grave
SR 80 389 San Bernardino Land Grant
SR 80 406 Geronimo’s Surrender
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SR 82 016 Johnny Ward Mine
SR 82 019 Mowry Mine
SR 82 040 Mexican Land Grant
SR 82 294 Camp Crittenden
SR 83 058 Vail Sonoita Highway
SR 84 181 Barony of Arizona
SR 85 123 Mormon Battalion Trail
SR 85 145 Gadsden Purchase
SR 85 192 U.S.A. Work Program W.P.A.
SR 85 193 Arizona State Capitol Building
SR 85 195 Carnegie Public Library/Park
SR 86 094 Quijotoa
SR 87 188 James G. Hart Memorial
SR 87 190 Grave of Dr. Carlos Montezuma (Wassaja)
SR 87 190 Camp Reno
SR 87 191 Fort McDowell
SR 87 212 Gilbert A. Duthie
SR 87 235 Officer “Gib” Duthie
SR 87 235 Officer Bob Martin
SR 87 291 The Battle of Big Dry Wash
SR 87 360 Winslow-Toreva Highway (Hayden &
Goodman)
SR 88 208 Canyon Lake
SR 88 229 Apache Lake
SR 88 241 Roosevelt Dam
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SR 89 252 Henry Wickenburg Memorial
SR 89 274 Charles Churchill Small
SR 89 289 Ruins of Walnut Grove Sam
SR 89 306 Welcome to Prescott
SR 89 312 Veterans of All U.S. Wars Park
SR 89 316 Welcome to Prescott
SR 89 333 Del Rio Springs
SR 89 346 Historic 35th Parallel
SR 89 346 Tribute to the Armed Forces
US 89 466 Cameron
US 89 540 Glen Canyon Bridge
US 89 540 Most Beautiful Steel Bridge
US 89 540 Glen Canyon Dam
US 89 540 Lake Powell
US 89 549 Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
US 89 549 Glen Canyon Bridge
US 89 549 State of Arizona, Gov. Paul Fannin
US 89 549 Carl Hayden Visitor Center
SR A89 344 Jerome Blast Furnace
SR A89 344 Rock - Prescott Granite
SR A89 377 Indians Gardens
US A89 537 Navajo Nation
US A89 537 Navajo Bridge
US A89 537 Navajo Bridge Register
US A89 538 Navajo Bridge Register
US A89 538 Gilbert H. Hansen Memorial
US A89 538 Norman D. Nevills Memorial
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US A89 538 Lovie “Dee” Reiff Memorial
US A89 538 Daughter of Utah Pioneers
US A89 538 Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
US A89 538 Lee’s Ferry, John Doyle Lee Memorial
US A89 538 Lee Ferry
US A89 557 Dominguez and Escalante Expedition
US A89 609 Pipe Springs National Monument
US A89 610 Dominguez and Escalante Expedition
US A89 612 Blue Star Memorial Highway
SR 90 314 Fort Huachuca (1877)
SR 90 318 Fort Huachuca
SR 90 329 Mormon Battalion
SR 92 340 Mormon LDS Church Battalion
US 93 028 Ghost Town of White Hills
US 93 067 Junction, Union Pass Road
US 93 123 Big Sandy Valley
US 93 160 Bill Williams River
US 93 174 Camp Date Creek
SR 95 234 Oatman
SR 95 247 Bullhead Community Park
US 160 344.3 Utah Pioneers Trails
SR 177 155.9 Sonora, Arizona
SR 179 301.6 Beaverhead Stage Station
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US 180 380 Lyman Dam
US 180 427 The Old BushValley Fort
SR 181 064 Neil and Emma Sophia Memorial
SR 188 242 Al Seiber Memorial
US 191 038 Chiricahua National Monument
US 191 163 San Francisco River
US 191 164 Clifton Cliff Jail
US 191 170 Ruins of Metcalf
US 191 233 Clifton-Springerville Highway
“The Coronado Trail”
SR 260 234 General Crook Trail
SR 260 268 Zane Grey’s Cabin
SR 260 357 Cooley Mountain
SR 264 323 Arizona’s First Woolen Mill
SR 264 472 Chief Hastele
SR 287 139 Ghost Town of Adamsville
Tucson __ Military Plaza
Tucson __ Mission San Jose Del Tucson
Tucson __ Second Territorial Capitol
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FROM 1850 TO 1877 ALL TRAVELERS CROSSING THE COLORADO RIVER USED THE FERRY. SEVERAL OPERATED BETWEEN THE MOUTH OF THE GILA RIVER AND PILOT KNOB. STEAMBOATS ARRIVED ON THE RIVER IN 1850 AND THE FIRST RAILROAD BRIDGE WAS BUILT IN 1877.
B-8 MP 000
BLUE STAR
MEMORIAL HIGHWAY
A TRIBUTE TO THE ARMED FORCES
THAT HAVE DEFENDED THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SPONSORED BY
ARIZONA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS
IN COOPERATION WITH
YUMA COUNTY GARDEN COUNCIL
AND
ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
B-8 MP 000.2
ARIZONA’S TERRITORIAL PRISON
1876 - 1908
BUILT TO HOUSE THE BADMEN WHO WERE THE TERROR OF ARIZONA WHEN IT WAS THE LAST FRONTIER OF THE NATION. ESCAPE FROM THE PRISON WAS DIFFICULT BUT CONFINEMENT IN THE STARK, SUN-BAKED CELLS WAS EVEN WORSE.
I-8 MP 014.5
EL CAMINO DEL DIABLO
(THE DEVIL’S HIGHWAY)
EARLY DAY ROUTE FROM SONORA TO CALIFORNIA OVER THE PATH TAKEN BY FATHER EUSEBIO KINO IN 1700 WHEN HE SOUGHT TO DISCOVER IF CALIFORNIA WAS PART OF THE AMERICA MAINLAND. THE PARCHED DESERT ALONG THIS ROUTE HAS CLAIMED HUNDREDS OF LIVES PARTICULARLY DURING THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH OF 1849.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
B-10 MP 305
MORMON
L.D.S. CHURCH
BATTTALION
DEC. 14,1846
LAST CAMP ON
SAN PEDRO
TURNED WEST
TOWARDS TUCSON
ERECTED 1960
BY POST 64
B-10 MP 364
OLD FORT BOWIE
GUARDIAN OF APACHE PASS
ESTABLISHED 1862 FOLLOWING THE BATTLE OF APACHE PASS. LARGEST CONFLICT IN ARIZONA INDIAN WARS. MASSED APACHES UNDER COCHISE AND MANGAS COLORADAS WERE ROUTED BY HOWITZERS FIRED BY CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS ATTACKED IN THE PASS. FORT BOWIE OVERLOOKED ONLY SPRING FOR MILES.
I-10 MP 182.2 EASTBOUND
GILA RIVER
INDIAN RESERVATION
(ESTABLISHED 1859)
HERE THE FIRST GOVERNMENT INDIAN SCHOOL WAS ESTABLISHED FOR PIMAS AND MARICOPAS IN 1871, WITH REV. CHARLES H. COOK AS TEACHER. IT WAS THE LOCATION OF PIMA VILLAGES, FRIENDLY RESTING PLACE FOR TRAVELERS DURING THE MEXICAN WAR AND THE GOLD RUSH. IT ALSO WAS THE BIRTH PLACE OF IRA HAYES, A PIMA, ONE OF THE U. S. MARINES IN THE FAMED FLAG-RAISING AT IWO JIMA.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1965
I-10 MP 182.2 WESTBOUND
GILA RIVER
INDIAN RESERVATION
(ESTABLISHED 1859)
HERE THE FIRST GOVERNMENT INDIAN SCHOOL WAS ESTABLISHED FOR PIMAS AND MARICOPAS IN 1871, WITH REV. CHARLES H. COOK AS TEACHER. IT WAS THE LOCATION OF PIMA VILLAGES, FRIENDLY RESTING PLACE FOR TRAVELERS DURING THE MEXICAN WAR AND THE GOLD RUSH. IT ALSO WAS THE BIRTH PLACE OF IRA HAYES, A PIMA, ONE OF THE U. S. MARINES IN THE FAMED FLAG-RAISING AT IWO JIMA.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1965
I-10 MP 219
NO 71
ERECTED MAY 15, 1937
MORMON BATTALION
TRAIL #71
THE MORMON BATTALION OF THE U.S. ARMY CAMPED HERE ENROUTE TO CALIFORNIA DECEMBER 17, 1846. DURING THE WAR WITH MEXICO, ON THE LONGEST INFANTRY MARCH OF RECORD, THEY WERE FIRST TO UNFURL THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES IN TUCSON.
THIS MARKER PLACED BY AARONIC PRIESTHOOD, MESA THIRD WARD, MARICOPA STAKE, J. R. PRICE, PRESIDENT, CHARLES E. STANDAGE, CHAIRMAN.
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HUGH DANA, BISHOP
SONS OF BATTALION FRANK K. POMEROY,
H.A. BRIZEE 1ST COUNSELOR
ED BOIL LELAND GLAZIER,
DAN JUDD 2ND COUNSELOR
J. WALLACE BOND, CLERK H. THURBER PAYNE, ASS’T.
I-10 MP 219
BATTLE OF PICACHO
APRIL 15, 1862
WESTERNMOST ACTION
BETWEEN CONFEDERATE & UNION FORCES
IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES-DEDICATED
TO CAPT. SHEROD HUNTER’S ARIZONA RANGERS ARIZONA VOLUNTEERS CSA
ERECTED BY CAPT. HUNTER’S ARIZONA
RANGERS CAMP NO. 1202 SONS OF
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
I-10 MP 219
CIVIL WAR MONUMENT
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
I-10 MP 320
FOUR MILES SOUTHEAST AT
COUNCIL ROCKS
APACHE PEACE TREATY WITH COCHISE
WAS RATIFIED IN 1872
NEAR DRAGOON SPRINGS ON OCTOBER 12, 1872 GENERAL O. O. HOWARD AND COCHISE CHIEF OF THE CHIRICAHUA APACHE INDIANS RATIFIED A PEACE TREATY ENDING YEARS OF WARFARE BETWEEN THAT TRIBE AND THE WHITE SETTLERS. COCHISE’S STRONGHOLD WAS HIDDEN DEEP IN THE DRAGOON MOUNTAINS BEYOND.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
A.H.D.
1962
I-10 MP 388 EASTBOUND
THE SAN SIMON
REST AREA
DEDICATED TO THE
ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS OF
PERCY JONES, JR.
1888 -
CHIEF LOCATING ENGINEER WHO BY SHEER GENIUS PERSONALLY LOCATED MORE MILES OF ARIZONA HIGHWAYS THAN ANY OTHER PERSON. HIS COLLEGE TRAINING IN MINING AND GEOLOGY COMBINED WITH INSTINCTS AS A PIONEER DESERT TRAVELER TO GIVE HIM UNCANNY ABILITIES AT PUSHING ROADS ACROSS VIRGIN COUNTRY.
THE SPECTACULAR DRIVE THROUGH SALT RIVER CANYON ON US 60 IS CONSIDERED A HIGH POINT OF THIS “BORN LOCATOR’S” CAREER
HE WORKED FOR THE ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT A YEAR BEFORE ENTERING WORLD WAR I IN 1917, RETURNING IN 1923. HE BECAME CHIEF LOCATING ENGINEER IN 1931 AND SERVED UNTIL 1943. THE DEPARTMENT CALLED HIM BACK IN 1955 FOR THREE MORE YEARS TO “TROUBLE SHOOT” CORRIDORS FOR
(CONT.)
I-10 MP 388 EASTBOUND
(CONT.)
THE NEW BILLION-DOLLAR INTERSTATE SYSTEM.
DEDICATED JULY 4, 1976 BY THE ARIZONA STATE TRANSPORTATION BOARD IN COOPERATION WITH THE ARIZONA SECTION, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.
I-10 MP 388 WESTBOUND
THE SAN SIMON
REST AREA
DEDICATED TO THE
ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS OF
PERCY JONES, JR.
1888 -
CHIEF LOCATING ENGINEER WHO BY SHEER GENIUS PERSONALLY LOCATED MORE MILES OF ARIZONA HIGHWAYS THAN ANY OTHER PERSON. HIS COLLEGE TRAINING IN MINING AND GEOLOGY COMBINED WITH INSTINCTS AS A PIONEER DESERT TRAVELER TO GIVE HIM UNCANNY ABILITIES AT PUSHING ROADS ACROSS VIRGIN COUNTRY.
THE SPECTACULAR DRIVE THROUGH SALT RIVER CANYON ON US 60 IS CONSIDERED A HIGH POINT OF THIS “BORN LOCATOR’S” CAREER
HE WORKED FOR THE ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT A YEAR BEFORE ENTERING WORLD WAR I IN 1917, RETURNING IN 1923. HE BECAME CHIEF LOCATING ENGINEER IN 1931 AND SERVED UNTIL 1943. THE DEPARTMENT CALLED HIM BACK IN 1955 FOR THREE MORE YEARS TO “TROUBLE SHOOT” CORRIDORS FOR
(CONT.)
I-10 MP 388 WESTBOUND
(CONT.)
THE NEW BILLION-DOLLAR INTERSTATE SYSTEM.
DEDICATED JULY 4, 1976 BY THE ARIZONA STATE TRANSPORTATION BOARD IN COOPERATION WITH THE ARIZONA SECTION, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.
I-17 MP 242
BLACK CANYON HIGHWAY
BLACK CANYON HIGHWAY
CONSTRUCTION BEGAN 1947
SIDNEY P. OSBORNE - GOVERNOR
COMPLETED - 1961
PAUL FANNIN - GOVERNOR
DEDICATED SEPTEMBER 10, 1961 BY
HONORABLE CARL HAYDEN
UNITED STATES SENATOR
“AND THEY WERE ONE”
1-17 MP 284
COPPER CANYON ROUTE
TO THE VERDE VALLEY
IN JANUARY OF 1865 NINE MEN AND ONE HORSE ENTERED THE VERDE VALLEY THROUGH COPPER CANYON TO LAUNCH THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL ANGLO-AMERICAN IRRIGATION PROJECT IN NORTHERN ARIZONA. CATTLE LOST BY INDIAN RAIDS EXCEEDED THE VALUE OF THE FIRST YEARS CROPS BUT THE INTREPID PIONEERS PERSEVERED.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
1961
I-17 MP 285
CAMP VERDE
THE OLDEST SETTLEMENT IN THE VERDE VALLEY. SITE OF HISTORIC FORT LINCOLN, ESTABLISHED IN 1864 TO PROTECT THE SETTLERS FROM MARAUDING APACHES.
FOUR OF THE FORT BUILDINGS MAY STILL BE SEEN, ONE OF WHICH HOUSES THE FORT VERDE MUSEUM.
B-19 MP 004
BLUE STAR
MEMORIAL HIGHWAY
A TRIBUTE TO THE ARMED FORCES
THAT HAVE DEFENDED THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SPONSORED BY
ARIZONA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS
IN COOPERATION WITH
ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
B-19 MP 005
PETE KITCHEN
PIONEER, RANCHER, STOCKMAN,
MINER & INDIAN FIGHTER BORN IN
TENNESSEE,1823, CAME TO ARIZONA
IN 1854 & ESTABLISHED 1000 ACRE
PORTRERO RANCH; SUPPLIER OF
MEAT & OTHER PRODUCTS TO ARMY
CAMPS, TUCSON & NEARBY SETTLE-
MENTS, DIED AT TUCSON AUGUST 5,
1895.
B-19 MP 059
MISION
SAN XAVIER DELBAC
ORIGINAL MISSION FOUNDED BY
JESUITS APRIL 1700. SACKED DURING
PIMA REVOLT 1751. RESTORED 1752.
TAKEN OVER BY FRANCISCANS ‘68.
RAIDED SAME YEAR BY APACHES.
WORK ON PRESENT STRUCTURE 1785-1798.
ABANDONED IN MEXICAN REVOLT
FROM SPAIN 1822. PRIESTS RETURN
AFTER GADSDEN PURCHASE 1859.
WITHSTOOD EARTHQUAKE 1887
RESTORED 1906.
AMERICA’S MOST BEAUTIFUL
MISSION IN ACTIVE USE TO-DAY.
B-19 MP 062
FIRST MUNICIPAL AIRPORT
IN THE UNITED STATES
THIS GROUND
WAS THE LOCATION
OF THE
FIRST MUNICIPAL AIRPORT
IN THE
UNITED STATES
THE FIRST PLANE LANDED
NOVEMBER 20, 1919
SWEDE MYERHOFER -- PILOT
TUCSON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
AVIATION COMMITTEE
R. E. FISHBURN, CHAIRMAN
CITY OF TUCSON
ESTABLISHED AND CONSTRUCTED
THE AIRPORT.
I-19 MP 009
GHOST TOWN OF
CALABASAS
IN THE 18TH CENTURY THIS WAS A
PAPAGO INDIAN VILLAGE VISITED BY
JESUIT MISSIONARIES. IT BECAME IN
TURN THE SITE OF SPANISH MINES,
A HUGE MEXICAN CATTLE RANCH, AND
A MILITARY OUTPOST. DURING THE
CIVIL WAR IT WAS THE LOCATION OF
FORT MASON AND IN THE 1880’S IT
WAS A WILD RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION
CAMP.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
1962
I-19 MP 022
TUBAC
FLAG OF SPAIN PLANTED 1737
GARRISONED 1752 TO PROTECT
CHURCH MISSIONS. LATER LOST
TO MEXICO. SETTLED BY THE
MORMONS IN 1852. AMERICAN
MINING CENTER BY 1856. WAS SELF
GOVERNED POST ON LAWLESS
FRONTIER. ISSUED OWN PAPER
MONEY BOLETOS REDEEMABLE
IN SILVER. FIRST AMERICAN
NEWSPAPER IN REGION. APACHE
RAIDS CAUSED ABANDONMENT
1861-64 OR THERE ABOUTS.
B-40 MP 163
BILL WILLIAMS MOUNTAIN
ELEVATION 9,264 FT.
THIS MOUNTAIN WAS NAMED FOR A COLORFUL MOUNTAINEER, GUIDE AND TRAPPER WHO IS GENERALLY CREDITED WITH BEING THE FIRST AMERICAN TO EXPLORE NORTHERN ARIZONA - 1830 OR EARLIER. WILLIAMS LIVED AT DIFFERENT TIMES AMONG THE OSAGE AND UTE INDIANS, AND EARLIER HAD BEEN A BAPTIST CIRCUIT RIDER IN MISSOURI. HE WAS KILLED BY INDIANS IN 1849.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
1962
I-40 MP 253 EASTBOUND
SUNSET CROSSING
THIS CROSSING, FIRST NOTED EARLY IN THE 50’S IN JOURNALS AND MAPS OF EXPLORERS ALONG THE 35TH PARALLEL, IS THE ONLY CONVERGENCE OF MAJOR TRAVEL ROUTES ON THE LITTLE COLORADO RIVER. IT LIES ON THE TRAIL USED BY MORMON IMMIGRANTS JOURNEYING FROM UTAH TO ARIZONA SETTLEMENTS DURING THE 1870’S. A ROCK LEDGE SPANNING THE STREAM FROM BANK TO BANK AT THIS POINT MADE CROSSING BY WAGON POSSIBLE. IT IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN NAMED AFTER SUNSET PASS LOCATED TO THE SOUTHWEST.
NAVAJO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
AND
ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
I-40 MP 266 EASTBOUND
SUNSET CROSSING
ON THE
LITTLE COLORADO RIVER
THIS WAS THE CROSSING FOR BEALE’S CAMEL EXPEDITION IN 1858 ON THE MILITARY ROAD FROM FORT DEFIANCE TO FORT MOHAVE. A ROCKY LEDGE THROUGH A RIVER BED FILLED WITH DANGEROUS QUICKSAND. IT WAS USED BY MILITARY TRAVELERS AND THE MORMON IMMIGRANTS WHO ARRIVED IN NORTHERN ARIZONA IN 1876. MAIN CROSSING OF THE RIVER UNTIL THE RAILROAD WAS BUILT IN 1882.
I-40 MP 358 WESTBOUND
IN MEMORY OF
MAX ORTEGA
1905 - 1979
LIFE-LONG RESIDENT OF THIS
AREA, SON OF A PIONEER ARIZONA
FAMILY, AND EARLY TRADESMAN
WHO WAS FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR
TO ALL.
ARIZONA STATE
TRANSPORTATION BOARD
1984
I-40 MP 358 WESTBOUND
DOMINGUEZ - ESCALANTE
EXPEDITION
ONE DAYS RIDE TO ZUNI
IN NOVEMBER OF 1776 A PARTY OF SPANISH EXPLORERS AND INDIAN GUIDES PASSED THROUGH THIS AREA ON THEIR WAY TO THE ZUNI MISSION IN WHAT IS NOW NEW MEXICO. FRANCISCAN FATHERS, FRANCISCO ATANASIO DOMINGUEZ AND SILVESTRE VELEZ DE ESCALANTE, HAD EMBARKED FROM SANTA FE WITH HOPES OF DISCOVERING AN OVERLAND ROUTE TO THE PRESIDIO AT MONTEREY. HOWEVER COLD WEATHER AND RUGGED TERRAIN FORCED THEM TO TURN SOUTH AND RETURN TO SANTA FE. WHILE THEY NEVER SUCCEEDED IN FINDING A SHORTER ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA, THE PRIESTS EXPORED MUCH NEW TERRITORY IN THE PRESENT STATES OF NEW MEXICO, COLORADO, UTAH AND ARIZONA. THEY WERE THE FIRST EUROPEANS TO DISCOVER A USEABLE CROSSING OF THE COLORADO RIVER AFTER WANDERING FOR MILES ALONG THE RIM OF THE SEEMINGLY IMPASSABLE MARBLE CANYON GORGE.
THE EXPLORERS HAD ATTEMPTED BRINGING THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION TO THE HOPIS IN
(CONT.)
I-40 MP 358 WESTBOUND
(CONT.)
ORAIBI, 100 MILES WEST OF HERE. THEIR CONVERSION EFFORTS WERE NOT WELL RECEIVED; BUT THEY WERE SAVED FROM STARVING BY THE HOPIS. THEY CAMPED NEAR THIS LOCATION ON NOVEMBER 16, 1776 IN A SNOWSTORM. THEY HAD BUT ONE MORE DAYS RIDE BEFORE REACHING THE FAMILIAR MISSION IN ZUNI, NEW MEXICO.
THIS MARKER WAS ERECTED HERE THROUGH THE COOPERATION OF THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE ARIZONA BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION-1976.
US 60 MP 018
THE LAST CAMP
OF
HI JOLLY
BORN IN SOMEWHERE IN SYRIA
ABOUT 1828
DIED AT QUARTZSITE
DECEMBER 16, 1902
CAME TO THIS COUNTRY
FEBRUARY 10, 1856
CAMELDRIVER - PACKER
SCOUT - OVER THIRTY
YEARS A FAITHFUL AID
TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
ARIZONA
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1935
US 60 MP 019
TYSON WELLS
OLD STAGE STATION
THIS WAS A STAGE STOP BETWEEN
EHRENBERG AND WICKENBURG AND
POINTS EAST. TRAVELERS IN THE 1870’S
AND 80’S MADE THEIR FIRST STOP
HERE ON EASTWARD JOURNEYS FROM
THE COLORADO RIVER. “NO GRASS
BUT GOOD WATER,” AN EARLY DESERT
GUIDE INDICATED. ACCOMMODATIONS
FOR PASSENGERS WERE CRUDE.
US 60 MP 056
SALOME
WHERE SHE DANCED
THIS DESERT TOWN WAS MADE
FAMOUS BY THE HUMOR OF DICK WICK
HALL. HEALTH-SEEKER AND OPERATOR
OF THE LAUGHING GAS STATION. HALL’S
PUBLICATION THE SALOME SUN WAS
FILLED WITH EXAGGERATED TALES OF
THE ADAPTATION OF ANIMAL AND PLANT
LIFE TO THE DESERT ENVIRONMENT. HE
FEATURED HIS FROG THAT WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD AND NEVER LEARNED TO
SWIM.
US 60 MP 106
WICKENBURG
MASSACRE
IN THIS VICINITY, NOV. 5, 1871
WICKENBURG - EHRENBERG
STAGE AMBUSHED BY APACHE
MOHAVE INDIANS.
JOHN LANZ - FRED W. LORING
P. M. HAMEL - - W. G. SALMON
FREDERICK SHOHOLM AND
C. S. ADAMS WERE MURDERED
MOLLIE SHEPPARD DIED OF
WOUNDS.
US 60 MP 107
VULTURE MINE
DISCOVERED IN 1863 BY
HENRY WICKENBURG
AND HIS BURRO
TO SUPPLY THE NEEDS OF THE MINES
AND PROTECTING MILITARY CAMPS
THE SALT RIVER VALLEY IRRIGATED
AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY WAS DEVELOPED.
THE VULTURE MINE PRODUCED 10 MILLIONS
IN GOLD AND WAS THE GREATEST SINGLE
FACTOR IN THE SETTLEMENT OF
CENTRAL ARIZONA. IT’S DISCOVERER
DIED BY HIS OWN HAND IN 1905
AT THE AGE OF 86.
US 60 MP 109
CRYPT OF HENRY WICKENBURG
HENRY WICKENBURG
BORN DIED
DECEMBER 21, 1820 MAY 14, 1905
US 60 MP 110
HASSAYAMPA
LEGEND
THERE’S A LEGEND CENTURIES OLD
BY THE EARLY SPANIARDS TOLD
OF A SPARKLING STREAM THAT “LIES”
UNDER ARIZONA SKIES
HASSAYAMPA IS ITS NAME
AND THE TITLE TO ITS FAME
IS A WONDROUS QUALITY
KNOWN TODAY FROM SEA TO SEA
THOSE WHO DRINK ITS WATERS BRIGHT
RED MAN, WHITE MAN, BOOR OR KNIGHT
GIRLS OR WOMEN, BOYS OR MEN
NEVER TELL THE TRUTH AGAIN.
ANDREW DOWNING
US 60 MP 166
ORIGINAL
SITE OF PHOENIX
IN THE WINTER OF 1867 - 1868, A PARTY
LED BY JACK SWILLING DUG A CANAL FROM
THE SALT RIVER TO IRRIGATE FIELDS IN
THIS VICINITY. HELLING’S MILL ON THE
BANK OF THE CANAL, PLUS A FEW NEIGH-
BORING STORES BECAME THE CENTER OF
PHOENIX SETTLEMENT. THREE YEARS
LATER, A NEW TOWNSITE WAS SURVEYED
AND ESTABLISHED TO THE WEST.
US 60 MP 168
AT THIS SITE
IN THE SPRING OF 1868
S. (FRENCHY) SAWYER
BUILT THE FIRST FARM DWELLING AND HARVESTED THE FIRST CULTIVATED CROP (BARLEY) IN THE VALLEY. THESE SAME FERTILE ACRES HAD BEEN IRRIGATED CENTURIES BEFORE BY INDIANS WHO ABANDONED THEIR CANALS AND LANDS.
HISTORICAL MARKER PLACED BY
MARICOPA COUNTY FARM BUREAU
1956
US 60 MP 170
DEDICATED
TO THE PIONEER
SPIRIT OF OUR
EARLY SETTLERS
ERECTED 1941
MARICOPA CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
UNDER THE REGENCY OF
MRS. J. L. B. ALEXANDER
MRS. CARL J. WALTERS
MRS. E. F. STRICKLER
MRS. ANGIL MARTIN
US 60 MP 170
*USA*
WORK PROGRAM
W.P.A.
HUNT BASS HATCHERY
ERECTED A.D. 1936
SPONSORED BY
ARIZONA STATE
GAME DEPARTMENT
C.P. NO. 65-2-544
US 60 MP 170
CLARK DAM
HUNT
BASS HATCHERY
ARIZONA GAME AND
FISH COMMISSION
W. C. JOYNER - GAME WARDEN
LYNN LOCKHART - CHAIRMAN
D. W. FRANCS - MEMBER
H. A. CLARK - MEMBER
AUGUST 30, 1932
INSIDE PHOENIX ZOO
US 60 MP 171
*USA*
WORK PROGRAM
W.P.A.
BEAUTIFICATION AND IMPROVEMENT
WASHINGTON BOULEVARD
IMPROVED A.D. 1936 - 37
SPONSORED BY
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
O.P. NO. 65 - 02 - 461
US 60 MP 171
GOVERNOR HUNT’S TOMB
BURIAL VAULT OF GEORGE W. P. HUNT,
1881-1934. WAITER, MINER, MERCHANT,
BANKER, LEGISLATOR, AND PRESIDENT OF
ARIZONA’S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
THE STATE’S FIRST GOVERNOR, SERVING
DURING SEVEN TERMS BEGINNING IN
1912. MINISTER TO SIAM 1921-22.
ENTOMBED WITH HIM ARE HIS WIFE, HER
PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. JESSIE W. ELLISON,
AND MRS. HUNT’S SISTER, MISS LENA ELLISON.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1962
US 60 MP 171
HAYDEN’S FERRY
STARTED IN 1872 HAYDEN’S FERRY
CONVEYED RESIDENTS AND TRAVELERS
ACROSS THE SALT RIVER DURING ITS
FLOOD STAGES. NAMED FOR CHARLES
TRUMBULL HAYDEN. PROBATE JUDGE,
MILLER, MERCHANT, FARMER, FREIGHTER
AND CIVIC LEADER, WHO WAS AN EARLY
RESIDENT OF TEMPE AND FATHER OF
U.S. SENATOR CARL HAYDEN.
US 60 MP 171
1949
THIS PLAQUE ERECTED BY
THE TEMPE GARDEN CLUB
IN MEMORY OF
HONOR ANDERSON MOEUR
WIFE OF
GOVERNOR B. B. MOEUR
FOR HER UNTIRING EFFORTS
TOWARD BEAUTIFICATION OF
OUR HIGHWAY AND THE
CREATION OF THIS PARK.
MOEUR PARK - TEMPE
US 60 MP171
STATE OF ARIZONA
TEMPE BRIDGE
COMMENCED A.D. 1910
COMPLETED A.D. 1913
UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE
TERRITORIAL BOARD OF CONTROL 1910-1912
RICHARD E. SLOAN, GOVERNOR
GEO. A. MAUK, AUDITOR ROBERT A. CRAIG, SECRETARY
THE STATE BOARD OF CONTROL 1912-1915
GEO. W. P. HUNT, GOVERNOR
J. C. CALLASHAW, AUDITOR
C. T. OSBURN, SECRETARY
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF
MARICOPA COUNTY 1912-1915
W. A. MOUER, CHAIRMAN
FRANK LUKE LIN B. ORME
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
J. B. GIRAND, TERRITORIAL ENGINEER 1910-1912
LAMAR COBB, STATE ENGINEER 1912-1915
C. E. HASSE, DESIGNING ENGINEER
J. C. RYAN, CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER
WITH PRISON LABOR
US 60 MP 171
*1930* *1931*
TEMPE BRIDGE
STATE OF ARIZONA
JOHN C. PHILLIPS - GEO. W. P. HUNT
GOVERNORS
THE ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
J. F. MCDONALD J. B. HART
W. P. WAYLAND JACOB BARTH
MONTE MANSFIELD MONTE MANSFIELD
S. R. TRENGOVE S. R. TRENGOVE
LYNCH - CANNON ENGINEERING CO.
CONTRACTORS
US 60 MP 195
ERECTED BY
THE
DONS CLUB
OF PHOENIX
TO
COMMEMORATE
THE
LEGEND OF
THE LOST
DUTCHMAN
MINE
1938
US 60 MP 204
JEFFERSON DAVIS
HIGHWAY NO. 70
ERECTED 1943 BY
UNITED
DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY
ARIZONA
US 60 MP 223
PICKET POST MOUNTAIN
A LANDMARK AND LOOKOUT POINT
DURING INDIAN WARS. SITE OF OUTPOST
OF CAMP PINAL WHICH WAS LOCATED AT
HEAD OF STONEMAN GRADE TO THE EAST.
SOLDIERS PROTECTED PINAL CITY AND THE
SILVER KING MINE FROM APACHE RAIDERS.
IT WAS THE HOME OF COL. WILLIAM BOYCE
THOMPSON, MINING MAGNATE AND FOUNDER
OF THE SOUTHWEST ARBORETUM AT
THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
1960
US 60 MP 246
MIAMI - SUPERIOR HIGHWAY
LENGTH 21 MILES
1919 COST 1,000,000
THOMAS CAMPBELL GOVERNOR
THOMAS MADDOCK ENGINEER
ASSISTANT ENGINEERS
JAMES PARKER EARL PARKER HARRY HAGEN
J.M. SHEPHERD H.B. WRIGHT C.C. SMALL
E.A. WOLFE M. BUTLER AL F. HARTER
A.W. VAN FLEET F.G. TWITCHELL
SUPERINTENDENTS OF CONSTRUCTION
RAN BONE FLOYD ALLEN
CONTRACTORS
J.L. HOOOPES S.Y. FAUCETT GILA COUNTY
BUILT WITH COUNTY, STATE AND FEDERAL
FUNDS. FIRST APPROPRIATION
FOURTH ARIZONA LEGISLATURE
BILL BY SENATOR W.D. CLAYPOOL
ERECTED APRIL 29,1922 BY THE MIAMI-SUPERIOR HIGHWAY. OPENING CELEBRATION COMMITTEE, NELSON D. BRAY CHAIRMAN
MADE OF LOCAL COPPER BY GLOBE FOUNDRY AND MACHINE CO.
PINAL GILA
US 60 MP 248
OLD DOMINION MINE
INCLUDED IN THIS HISTORIC COPPER
MINE ARE THE GLOBE LEDGE SILVER
CLAIMS. DISCOVERED IN 1873, THE
FIRST TO YIELD PROFITABLE ORE IN
THE GLOBE-MIAMI DISTRICT. THE OLD
DOMINION INCLUDED MANY OTHER EARLY
CLAIMS. PRODUCTION CEASED IN THE
30’S, DUE TO SUBTERRANEAN FLOODING
AND THE LOWERED PRICE OF COPPER.
US 60 MP 265
LOCATED ALONG THIS ROAD
MC MILLENVILLE
GHOST MINING CAMP
IN 1874 NATIVE SILVER WAS DISCOVERED
IN WHAT BECAME THE FABULOUS STONEWALL
JACKSON LEDGE. THE DISCOVERY BROUGHT
BOOM CONDITIONS THAT LASTED LESS THAN
10 YEARS. AN INDIAN ATTACK ON THE
CAMP WAS REPULSED IN 1882. MINE
PRODUCTION CEASED IN THE MID 1880’S.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
US 60 MP 290
GEOLOGICAL DISPLAY
(THERE IS NO OTHER TEXT.)
US 60 MP 294
SALT RIVER CANYON RECREATION AREA
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
US 60 MP 297
BECKER BUTTE LOOKOUT
______
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
GUSTAV BECKER
SPRINGERVILLE, ARIZONA
1850 - 1940
________
PIONEER MERCHANT, TRAIL BLAZER, ROAD BUILDER
A FATHER OF U. S. HIGHWAY 60
“HIS WAS A LONG LIFE, FOUNDED ON THE GOLDEN RULE”
US 60 MP 297
IN MEMORY OF
JULIUS W. BECKER
1886 - 1959
SON OF GUSTAV BECKER
_____
HIS LIFE WAS DEDICATED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF HIS FATHER. AN UNSELFISH DEVOTION TO THE BETTERMENT OF HIS FELLOW MAN.
THEY MADE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE IN WHICH TO LIVE
US 60 MP 387
MADONNA OF THE TRAIL
N.S.D.A.R. MEMORIAL
TO THE
PIONEER MOTHERS
OF THE
COVERED WAGON DAYS
SR 64 MP 268
GRAND CANYON AIRLINE TRAGEDY
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
SR 66 MP 052
LT. EDWARD FITZGERALD BEALE
1822 - 1893
PIONEER IN THE PATH OF EMPIRE,
HERO OF THE WAR WITH MEXICO,
LIEUTENANT IN UNITED STATES
NAVY. APPOINTED GENERAL BY THE
GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA.
COMMANDED EXPLORATION OF WAGON
ROUTE TO THE COLORADO RIVER,
WITH THE ONLY CAMEL TRAIN IN
AMERICAN HISTORY 1857 - 1858.
SR 66 MP 052
WAGON ROUTE
SURVEYED BY LT. EDWARD F. BEALE 1857 -
1858. FOLLOWED BY RAILROAD SURVEY,
1858 - 1859. ROUTE OF ATLANTIC AND
PACIFIC RAILROAD BUILT ACROSS ARIZONA
1882 - 1883, TRACKS REACHED KINGMAN,
SPRING, 1883. U. S. HIGHWAY 66 CLOSELY
FOLLOWS BEALE’S SURVEY.
SR 66 MP 052
UNITED STATES ARMY
ESTABLISHED CAMP BEALE’S SPRINGS ABOUT ONE MILE NORTH, MARCH 25, 1871, FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE SETTLERS AND TRAVELERS ON NORTHERN ROUTE; SERVED AS HUALAPAI INDIAN AGENCY. MILITARY CAMP ABANDONED APRIL 6, 1874.
SR 66 MP 276
DAUGHTERS OF UTAH PIONEERS
NO. 173
ERECTED MARCH 22,1952
THE OLD FORT
A GROUP OF COLONISTS CALLED BY BRIGHAM YOUNG, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF WILLIAM C. ALLEN SETTLED HERE MARCH 24, 1876. THEY ERECTED A FORT OF COTTONWOOD LOGS AND MUD ON THIS SITE. IT WAS FIRST KNOWN AS ALLEN’S CAMP. IN 1878 THE NAME WAS CHANGED TO ST. JOSEPH IN HONOR OF JOSEPH SMITH THE MORMON PROPHET. THE PEOPLE OCCUPIED THE FORT FOR SEVERAL YEARS DURING WHICH TIME THEY LIVED THE UNITED ORDER. IN 1923 THE NAME OF THE TOWN WAS CHANGED TO JOSEPH CITY. IT IS THE OLDEST MORMON COMMUNITY IN ARIZONA.
NAVAJO COUNTY
SR 66 MP 325
AT NAVAJO SPRINGS
DECEMBER 29, 1863
ARIZONA’S TERRITORIAL
OFFICIALS TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE
DURING A SNOWSTORM GOVERNOR JOHN N. GOODWIN AND OTHER OFFICIALS ARRIVING FROM THE EAST BY WAGON TRAIN TOOK THEIR OATHS OF OFFICE AND RAISED THE U.S. FLAG “TO ESTABLISH A GOVERNMENT WHEREBY THE SECURITY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY WILL BE MAINTAINED THROUGHOUT ITS LIMITS, AND ITS VARIED RESOURCES BE RAPIDLY AND SUCCESSFULLY DEVELOPED.”
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
- 1957 -
SR 69 MP 247
THE WOOLSEY TRAIL
OLD BLACK CANYON ROAD
THE OLD STAGE AND FREIGHTING ROUTE FIRST USED IN 1865 CONNECTED PRESCOTT AND SOUTHERN ARIZONA. IT CAN BE SEEN ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE CANYON. IT WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED THE WOOLSEY TRAIL AND LATER THE BLACK CANYON ROAD.
SR 69 MP 280
OLD FORT WOOLSEY
SITE OF WOOLSEY RANCH
KNOWN AS OLD FORT WOOLSEY
BECAUSE OF ENGAGEMENTS
IN THIS LOCALITY BETWEEN
INDIANS AND PIONEER SETTLERS.
ALSO KNOWN AS “HALF WAY
HOUSE” BY STAGE COACH
DRIVERS AND TRAVELERS.
NAMED FOR COL. KING WOOLSEY
WHO SERVED IN THE FIRST,
SECOND, SEVENTH, EIGHT AND
NINTH TERRITORIAL COUNCILS.
SR 69 MP283
OLD ORCHARD RANCH
HOME OF
SHARLOT M. HALL
PIONEER ARIZONA POET
THIS HOMESTEAD AND RANCH ESTABLISHED IN 1882 WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR THE TENDEREST, MOST EXPRESSIVE POETRY WRITTEN IN ARIZONA. HERE MISS HALL, TERRITORIAL HISTORIAN, COMPOSED MANY OF THE WORKS INCLUDED IN “CACTUS AND PINE” AND “POEMS OF A RANCH WOMAN”
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
SR 69 MP 293
PRESCOTT
FOUNDED 1864 ON GRANITE CREEK
EARLY SOURCE OF PLACER GOLD. FORMER
TERRITORIAL CAPITAL OF ARIZONA,
NOW A CENTER FOR RANCHING, MINING,
HEALTH, ESPECIALLY ASTHMA RELIEF,
LOCATED HERE ON SITE OF OLD FT. WHIPPLE
IS WHIPPLE VETERANS HOSPITAL. SEAT OF
FIRST GOVERNOR’S MANSION, AND
ARIZONA PIONEER’S HOME. FRONTIER
DAYS, OLDEST RODEO IN WEST, BEGAN HERE.
ERECTED BY PRESCOTT ROTARY CLUB
US 70 MP 273.1
APACHELAND
OLD SAN CARLOS
THE FAMOUS OLD INDIAN AGENCY OF
THE BLOODY APACHE WAR DAYS WAS
COVERED BY THE WATERS OF SAN CARLOS
LAKE UPON COMPLETION OF COOLIDGE DAM
IN 1928. THE OLD INDIAN CEMETERY
WAS COVERED WITH A CEMENT SLAB.
BUILDINGS WERE MOVED SEVERAL MILES
NORTH TO A NEW SAN CARLOS.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
US 70 MP 302
GERONIMO
NAMED FOR THE REBELLIOUS MEDICINE
MAN WHO LED THE CHIRICAHUA APACHES
ON THEIR LAST RAIDS. TO SURRENDER,
AND THEN INTO EXILE IN FLORIDA AND
OKLAHOMA. THEIR DESCENDANTS LIVED
IN EASTERN ARIZONA AGAIN. THIS WAS
ALSO THE SITE OF ORIGINAL CAMP THOMAS,
ESTABLISHED IN 1876 TO KEEP GERONIMO’S
TRIBESMEN ON THEIR FARMLANDS
ALONG THE GILA RIVER.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
1962
US 70 MP 306
FORT THOMAS
FT. THOMAS FRONTIER FORT
BIRTHPLACE OF MELVIN JONES
SON OF CAPTAIN CALVIN JONES U.S. CRV.
LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL
WORLDS LARGEST SERVICE CLUB
FOUNDED IN CHICAGO 1917 BY THE EFFORTS
OF
JAN. 13, 1879 MELVIN JONES JUNE 1, 1961
US 70 MP 306
MELVIN JONES
ERECTED BY THE LIONS CLUBS OF ARIZONA
THIS COMMEMORATION IS THE RESULT
OF YEARS OF EFFORT BY MEMBERS
OF THE SAFFORD LIONS CLUB AND IS A
PLEDGE OF CONTINUED SERVICE TO MANKIND
IN THE TRADITION OF LIONISM AND
MELVIN JONES
DEDICATED JUNE 27, 1965
SCULPTOR DESIGNER
EMIL GALANDI ROGER DAVID
US 70 MP341
THE GILA VALLEY
THE ROUTE OF
CORONADO IN SEARCH OF FABLED SEVEN
CITIES OF CIBOLA
1540
JAMES O. PATTIE AND OTHER FAMOUS
TRAPPERS ALONG THE GILA RIVER
1825-26
GEN. STEPHEN W. KEARNY AND LT. W. H. EMORY
LED BY KIT CARSON TO CALIFORNIA
1846
APACHE INDIAN HUNTING GROUNDS
COLONIZED BY MORMON PIONEERS
1879
US 70 MP 344
SOLOMON
(SOLOMONVILLE)
COUNTY SEAT OF GRAHAM COUNTY 1883 - 1915
NAMED FOR ISADORE ELKAN SOLOMON. A PIONEER SETTLER, WHO IN 1876 BURNED CHARCOAL HERE FOR SUPPLYING FUEL
TO THE LESINSKY BROTHERS COPPER SMELTER NEAR CLIFTON. FIRST TREASURER OF GRAHAM COUNTY. EARLY DAY MERCHANT, POSTMASTER, AND ONE OF THE FOUNDERS
OF THE GILA VALLEY BANK.
US 70 MP 347
IN 1846
GENERAL KEARNEY’S
ARMY OF THE WEST
GUIDED BY KIT CARSON
FOLLOWED THE GILA RIVER FROM
NEW MEXICO TO THE OCCUPATION
OF CALIFORNIA IN THE MEXICAN
WAR. THUS OPENING THE
SOUTHERN SNOW FREE ROUTE TO
THE PACIFIC COAST.
US 70 MP 356
IN MEMORY OF TWO OF THE
MANY PIONEERS WHO BROUGHT
LAW, ORDER AND SAFETY TO
THE GILA VALLEY
LORENZO AND SETH WRIGHT
WERE KILLED 1 MILE NORTH OF
THIS SPOT BY INDIANS WHO
HAD STOLEN 45 HORSES FROM
EARLY SETTLERS
WHILE PURSUING THE INDIANS, THEY
WERE AMBUSHED DEC. 1, 1885
DEDICATED BY
THE MT. GRAHAM AND ST. JOSEPH STAKES
OF THE L.D.S. CHURCH
SEPT. 24, 1933
US 70 MP 364
IN MEMORY OF
HORATIO HARRIS MERRILL
BORN JANUARY 3,1837
AND HIS DAUGHTER
ELIZA ANN MERRILL
BORN JULY 27, 1881
WHO WHILE TRAVELING BY TEAM AND
WAGON FROM PIMA ARIZONA TO CLIFTON
ARIZONA WERE AMBUSHED AND KILLED BY
INDIANS WITH RIFLES, DECEMBER 3, 1895,
SHORTLY AFTER SUNDOWN.
ERECTED BY THE
MERRILL FAMILY ORGANIZATION
IN COOPERATION WITH
THE ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
ERECTED 1961
SR 73 MP 333
KINISHBA RUINS
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
SR 75 MP 392
APACHE GROVE
THIS AREA SERVED AS A RESTING PLACE
FOR APACHE WAR PARTIES DURING THE
RAIDS OF THE 1880’S. NEAR HERE FELIX B.
KNOX, A CATTLEMAN AND GAMBLER,
STAYED BEHIND TO FACE INDIANS WHILE
HIS WIFE, CHILDREN AND HIRED MAN
ESCAPED IN A BUCKBOARD. OUT OF RE-
SPECT FOR HIS VALOR, THEY DID NOT
MUTILATE HIS BODY.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
SR 77 MP 080
CANADA DEL ORO
FOR EARLY TRAVELERS THE ROAD THROUGH
THIS CANYON WAS ONE OF THE MOST DAN-
GEROUS IN ARIZONA. INDIANS ATTACKED
LONE RIDERS AND WAGON TRAINS ALONG
THIS ROUTE FROM TUCSON TO OLD CAMP
GRANT ON THE SAN PEDRO RIVER. DESPITE
THE CANYON’S NAME, VERY LITTLE GOLD
WAS EVER FOUND HERE.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
SR 77 MP 161
EL CAPITAN PASS
THIS PASS WAS USED BY KEARNY’S
ARMY OF THE WEST IN A MARCH TO
CALIFORNIA IN 1846, GUIDED BY
KIT CARSON. IT WAS DESCRIBED IN
A JOURNAL OF THE TRIP AS “CARSON’S
OLD TRAIL.” THE PASS LED AROUND
THE IMPASSABLE CANYON ON THE
GILA RIVER WHERE COOLIDGE DAM
HAS NOW BEEN CONSTRUCTED.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
SR 79 MP 115
JAN. 8, 1880 - OCT. 12, 1940
IN MEMORY OF
TOM MIX
WHOSE SPIRIT LEFT HIS BODY ON THIS SPOT AND WHOSE CHARACTERIZATION AND PORTRAYALS IN LIFE SERVED TO BETTER FIX MEMORIES OF THE OLD WEST IN THE MINDS OF LIVING MEN.
SR 79 MP 136
POSTON’S BUTTE
FINAL RESTING PLACE OF ‘FATHER OF ARIZONA’
CHARLES D. POSTON, BORN KENTUCKY
1825. ARIZONA’S FIRST DELEGATE TO
CONGRESS, IS BURIED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH HIS WISHES. IT WAS TO HAVE BEEN THE
SITE FOR POSTON’S TEMPLE TO THE SUN,
BUT THAT EFFORT FAILED AND HE DIED
IN POVERTY IN PHOENIX IN 1902. NOT UN-
TIL YEARS LATER WERE HIS REMAINS
BROUGHT TO THE PLACE CALLED PAR-
SEE HILL, BUT KNOWN TO LOCAL RESI-
DENTS AS POSTON’S BUTTE.
SR 80 MP 301
MORMON
LDS CHURCH
BATTALION
CAMP DEC 18, 1846
CAPT. P. C. MERRILL
RETURNED TO
SAN PEDRO 1877
ERECTED 1960
BY TROOP 21
SR 80 MP 314
IN MEMORY OF
UNIDENTIFIED
VETERANS
PIONEERS
SETTLERS
ROY FOURR POST NO 24
AMERICAN LEGEND
1937
SR 80 MP 316
WELCOME TO BOOTHILL GRAVEYARD
1878
BURIED HERE ARE THE REMAINS OF
TOM MC LOWERY KILLED IN EARP-
FRANK MC LOWERY CLANTON BATTLE
BILLIE CLANTON OCT. 26, 1881
DAN DOWD RED SAMPLE HANGED LEGALLY BY
BILL DELANEY J. E. WARD, SHERIFF
AND DAN KELLY BISBEE
FOR MASSACRE,
MAR. 8, 1884
JOHN HEATH LYNCHED BY BISBEE MOB
FEB. 22, 1884
M. R. PEEL MURDERED IN CHARLESTON
MAR. 8, 1882
BILLY GROUNDS, “DUTCH” ARNIE, INDIAN BILL,
PAT LYNCH, BILLY KIPSMAN, BLACK JACK, BRADY BROTHERS, MIKE NOONAN
CHINA MARY JOHN HICKS
SR 80 MP 317
TOMBSTONE COURTHOUSE
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
SR 80 MP 319
TOMBSTONE HISTORIC DISTRICT
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
SR 80 MP 341
DISCOVERY OF ORE
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
SR 80 MP 343
THIS OPEN PIT MINE NAMED
THE LAVENDER PIT
IN HONOR OF
HARRISON M. LAVENDER
1890 - 1952
SR 80 MP 356
MORMON
LDS CHURCH
BATTALION
SMITH GRAVE
TWO MILE SOUTH
BURIED
DEC 7, 1848
ERECTED 1960
BY TROOP 34
SR 80 MP 389
SAN BERNARDINO
LAND GRANT
THIS MEXICAN LAND GRANT DATING
FROM 1822 STRETCHED ON BOTH SIDES
OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY.
STOPPING PLACE FOR THE MORMON
BATTALION IN 1846 AND FOR THOUSANDS
OF GOLD-SEEKERS IN FOLLOWING YEARS.
HOME RANCH OF JOHN SLAUGHTER,
ARIZONA SHERIFF FROM 1884 TO 1922.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
SR 80 MP 406
GERONIMO’S SURRENDER
“NEAR HERE, GERONIMO, LAST APACHE CHIEF-TAIN, AND NACHITE WITH THEIR FOLLOWERS, SURRENDERED, ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1886, TO GENERAL NELSON A. MILES, U. S. ARMY. LIEUTENANT CHAS. B. GATEWOOD WITH KIETA AND MARTINE, APACHE SCOUTS, RISKED THEIR LIVES TO ENTER THE CAMP OF THE HOSTILES TO PRESENT TERMS OF SURRENDER OFFERED TO THEM BY GENERAL MILES.
AFTER TWO DAYS, GATEWOOD RECEIVED THE CONSENT OF GERONIMO AND NACHITE TO SUR-RENDER.
THE SURRENDER OF GERONIMO IN SKELETON CANYON, ON THAT HISTORIC DAY, FOREVER ENDED INDIAN WARFARE IN THE UNITED STATES.”
ERECTED A.D. 1934
CITY OF DOUGLAS
WITH FEDERAL C.W.A. FUNDS
SR 82 MP 016
JOHNNY WARD RANCH
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
SR 82 MP 019
MOWRY MINE
ORIGINALLY WORKED BY MEXI-
CANS RE-LOCATED BY AMERICANS
1858 AFTER GADSDEN PURCHASE
NAMED PATAGONIA MINE-PURCHAS-
ED FOR $25,000 1860 BY LIEUT.
SYLVESTER MOWRY WEST POINT
GRADUATE--RICH IN SILVER,LEAD-
DEFENSE AGAINST BANDITS AND
APACHES COSTLY-MOWRY ACCUSED
OF CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIES-
ARRESTED IMPRISONED IN FORT
YUMA--MINE TAKEN BY U.S. GOVT.-
MOWRY DIED IN LONDON 10-15-71.
SR 82 MP 040
MEXICAN LAND GRANT
SAN IGNACIA
DEL BABOCOMARI
FOR $380 ON DECEMBER 25, 1832, IGNACIO ELIAS AND HIS SISTER EULALIA PURCHASED 123,068 ACRES OF RANGELAND STRETCHING ALMOST TO THE SAN PEDRO RIVER ON THE EAST AND TO THE CANELO HILLS AND SONOITA CREEK ON THE WEST. ONLY 34,707 ACRES WAS ALLOWED BY THE U.S. COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS--THE LARGEST LAND GRANT APPROVED IN ARIZONA.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
SR 82 MP 294
CAMP CRITTENDEN
ESTABLISHED AUGUST 10, 1867. NAMED CAMP CRITTENDEN BY GENERAL ORDERS NO. 57 DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 30, 1867, IN HONOR OF THOMAS A. CRITTENDEN, COL. 32ND U. S. INFANTRY MAJOR GENERAL U.S. VOLUNTEERS. CAMP ABANDONED JUNE 1, 1873. ESTABLISHED TO PROTECT SETTLE-
MENTS OF TABOCOMARI, SONOITA, AND SANTA CRUZ VALLEYS AGAINST INDIANS. LEADING A DETACHMENT OF TROOPS FROM THIS POST, MAY 5, 1871, LIEUT. CUSHING WAS KILLED BY ONE OF COCHISE’S BAND.
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1968
SR 83 MP 058
VAIL SONOITA HIGHWAY
LOCATED AND CONSTRUCTED IN 1918 BY LAMAR COBB,
FIRST STATE ENGINEER OF ARIZONA
MEMBER OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
BORN 1870 DIED 1926
ATHENS, GEORGIA PHOENIX, ARIZONA
ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY
IN 1927 BY THE
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
GEORGE P. HUNT - GOVERNOR
SR 84 MP 181
BARONY OF ARIZONA
HOME OF THE
“BARON OF ARIZONA”
JAMES ADDISON PERALTA REAVIS WAS
BRAZEN FORGER WHO CLAIMED OVER 12 MILLION ACRES OF CENTRAL ARIZONA
AND WESTERN NEW MEXICO AS AN OLD
SPANISH LAND GRANT. HE AND HIS
FAMILY LIVED HERE IN ROYAL STYLE
UNTIL HIS FRAUD WAS EXPOSED. FROM
THE BARONY HE WENT TO FEDERAL
PRISON IN 1895.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
SR 85 MP 123
MORMON BATTALION TRAIL
PLACED HERE BY BISHOP HUGH DANA AND SONS IN HONOR OF THE MORMON BATTALION, WHICH PASSED HERE DECEMBER 27, 1846, ON THEIR WAY TO CALIFORNIA, IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE WAR WITH MEXICO.
HAROLD KENNETH
DWIGHT GAIL
SR 85 MP 145
GADSDEN PURCHASE
UNTIL DECEMBER 30, 1853, THE GILA RIVER (1 MILE NORTH) FORMED THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. THROUGH THE GADSDEN PURCHASE, ALL TERRITORY NORTH OF THE PRESENT BOUNDARY BECAME A PART OF THE UNITED STATES.
CONSIDERATION - $10,000,000
NEW ALIGNMENT - BUCKEYE - GILA BEND
U.S. HIGHWAY 80
DEDICATED MAY 20, 1956
ERNEST W. MCFARLAND, GOVERNOR
STATE OF ARIZONA
SR 85 MP 192
U. S. A.
WORK PROGRAM
W. P. A.
ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY
BUCKEYE ROAD
ERECTED A.D. 1936-SPONSORED BY
ARIZONA STATE
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
OP. NO. 65-2-444
SR 85 MP 193
ARIZONA STATE
CAPITOL BUILDING
COMPLETED IN 1900 AT A COST OF APPROXIMATELY $136,000. DESIGNED BY JAMES RILEY GORDON OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, IT SERVED AS THE FIRST ARIZONA OWNED SEAT OF GOVERNMENT DURING THE LATE TERRITORIAL DAYS AND ITS TRANSITION TO STATEHOOD IN 1912. THE ORIGINAL STRUCTURE IS 184 FT. LONG AND 84 FT. DEEP. THE EXTERIOR IS CONSTRUCTED ENTIRELY OF ARIZONA PRODUCTS - GREY GRANITE FROM THE SALT RIVER MOUNTAINS, TUFA FROM YAVAPAI COUNTY AND THE FOUNDATION IS MALAPIA ROCK FROM CAMELBACK MOUNTAIN.
THIS PLAQUE IS RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED TO THE CITIZENS OF
ARIZONA THIS 19TH DAY OF APRIL 1969
BY
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD
JURISDICTION OF ARIZONA
SR 85 MP 195
CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY/PARK
REHABILITATION OF THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY
1986
STATE OF ARIZONA
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY, ARCHIVES AND PUBLIC RECORDS
BOARD MEMBERS
FRANK KELLY, CHAIRMAN
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
STAN TURLEY
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
JOHN HAYS
STATE SENATOR
POLLY ROSENBAUM
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
SHARON TURGEON
DIRECTOR
THIS BUILDING, DESIGNED BY W. R. NORTON (1853-1938) OF PHOENIX WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1907-1908 AND WAS PLACED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES IN 1974.
GERALD A. DOYLE, F.A.I.A.
ARCHITECT FOR THE REHABILITATION
SR 86 MP 094
QUIJOTOA
THIS IS A PAPAGO WORD MEANING
MOUNTAIN SHAPED LIKE A CARRYING
BASKET. DISCOVERY OF A POCKET OF
GOLD AND SILVER ORE LED TO A FAB-
ULOUS BOOM DEVELOPMENT HERE IN
1883. THE DESERT HAS RECLAIMED THE
ORIGINAL SITE AND IT’S SUBURBS OF
LOGAN CITY, NEW VIRGINIA, BROOKLYN
AND ALLEN CITY. THE MINE WAS A COM-
PLETE FAILURE - A TINY POCKET OF
RICHES ON THE MOUNTAIN.
SR 87 MP 188
A MEMORIAL TO
JAMES G. HART
1908
1960
ONE OF ARIZONA’S TRAIL BLAZERS
THIS HIGHWAY IS IN PART,
HIS INSPIRATION AND MONUMENT.
MEMBER MARICOPA COUNTY
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
1953 - 1960
“_______ TO _______”
SR 87 MP 190
GRAVE OF
DR. CARLOS MONTEZUMA
(WASSAJA)
1865 - 1923
GREATEST OF THE EDUCATED APACHES.
THIS MOHAVE-APACHE INDIAN WAS TAKEN
CAPTIVE AT THE AGE OF SIX BY PIMA
INDIANS. HE WAS SOLD TO A WHITE MAN
WHO EDUCATED HIM AS A PHYSICIAN. DR.
MONTEZUMA HAD A SPLENDID PRACTICE IN
CHICAGO AND BECAME A CHAMPION OF
INDIAN RIGHTS. BUT HE DIED OF TUBER-
CULOSIS IN A BRUSH HUT NEAR HERE
REFUSING ALL MEDICAL CARE.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1962
SR 87 MP 190
CAMP RENO
FROM 1866 TO 1868 THIS OUTPOST
OF FT. McDOWELL SERVED AS A
DEPARTURE POINT FOR MILITARY
EXPEDITIONS AGAINST THE TONTO
AND PINAL APACHE INDIANS.
HISTORICAL MARKER ERECTED BY
JOHN H. PAGE LAND CO.
FRED ELDEAN - BOB CARLOCK
1962
SR 87 MP 191
FORT McDOWELL
THIS IMPORTANT MILITARY POST PROTECTED CENTRAL ARIZONA SETTLEMENTS FROM THE TONTO APACHES DURING THE INDIAN WARS, 1865 TO 1886. ITS FUNCTION AS A MILITARY POST ENDED IN 1890 AND IT BECAME A RESERVATION IN 1891 AS HOME OF THE MOHAVE - APACHE AND YAVAPAI - APACHES. IT WAS THE HOME AND BURIAL PLACE OF DR. CARLOS MONTEZUMA, A MOHAVE - APACHE INDIAN. SCOUTING PARTIES FROM FORT McDOWELL REGULARLY PATROLLED THE TONTO BASIN AREA BEYOND FOUR PEAKS.
ARIZONA LANDMARKS COMMITTEE
SR 87 MP 212
IN MEMORY
GILBERT A. DUTHIE
10-12-30 TO 9-6-70
HIGHWAY PATROLMAN
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
LOST HIS LIFE AS THIS SITE
WHILE SERVING THE PEOPLE
OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA.
SR 87 MP 235
OFFICER
“GIB” DUTHIE
OFFICER GILBERT “GIB” DUTHIE WAS ADMIRED BY HIS FELLOW OFFICERS FOR THE WAY HE ALWAYS HAD SOMETHING NICE TO SAY AND FOR HIS GIFT OF MAKING EVERYONE -- EVEN THE PEOPLE HE STOPPED -- FEEL BETTER BECAUSE THEY KNEW GIB CARED FOR THEIR SAFETY. HE SPENT MOST OF HIS PATROL TIME AND PART OF HIS PERSONAL TIME ASSISTING MOTORISTS, HELPING THEM TO GET BACK ON THE ROAD AND HOME SAFELY. YOU COULD ALWAYS SEE IN HIS SMILE THAT THIS HIGH-
WAY PATROLMAN REALLY CARED. GIB WAS BORN IN MEXICO AND LIVED IN THE DOUGLAS AREA. HE SERVED FOUR YEARS IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY AND CAME HOME TO ARIZONA TO FULFILL HIS DREAM OF BECOMING A HIGHWAY PATROLMAN. HIS ENTIRE TEN-YEAR CAREER WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY WAS SPENT PATROLLING STATE ROUTE 87, THE BEELINE HIGHWAY. HE LOST HIS LIFE WHILE ON DUTY DURING THE FLOODS OF 1970 DOING WHAT HE ALWAYS DID -- HELPING TO SAVE OTHERS.
SR 87 MP 235
OFFICER
BOB MARTIN
BOB MARTIN LIVED IN THE EARLY 50s NEAR THE SAGUARO LAKE MARINA, AND JOINED THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO BECOME A HIGHWAY PATROLMAN IN 1968. IN 1972 HE JOINED THE BEELINE SQUAD, AND IT WAS LIKE COMING HOME AGAIN. HE PATROLLED THE BEELINE HIGHWAY FOR 23 OF HIS NEARLY 28 YEARS WITH DPS. HE WAS A MENTOR TO YOUNGER OFFICERS, A PERFECTIONIST WHO INSISTED THE JOB BE WELL DONE, AND IN SO DOING BECAME AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS “MOTHER MARTIN”. BOB WAS A GENTLE GIANT, A MAN OF HONOR AND INTEGRITY, A PLAIN-SPEAKING, NO-NONSENSE OFFICER WITH A BIG HEART.
HE WAS OFFERED SAFER JOBS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT, BUT HIS HEART WAS ON THE BEELINE HIGHWAY ASSISTING MOTORISTS AND KEEPING THEM SAFER. IN HIS DEATH, IT IS SAID HIS SPIRIT IS THE ETERNAL GUARDIAN OF THE BEELINE HIGHWAY.
OFFICER BOB MARTIN WAS KILLED WHILE ON DUTY IN AUGUST OF 1995.
SR 87 MP 291
NEAR HERE, JULY 17, 1882
THE BATLE OF BIG DRY WASH
WAS FOUGHT
IN THIS LAST BIG BATTLE OF THE APACHE WARS, FOURTEEN TROOPS OF CAVALRY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN A. R. CHAFFEE, ENCIRCLED A GROUP OF RENEGADE COYOTERO APACHES LED BY NA-TI-O-TISH. THIS FOLLOWED A WEEK OF RAIDING AND SLAUGHTER BY THE NATIVES WHO HAD ESCAPED FROM THE WHITE MOUNTAIN RESERVATION. MOST OF THE HOSTILES WERE KILLED. LT. THOMAS CRUSE WON THE MEDAL OF HONOR IN THIS BATTLE.
SR 87 360
WINSLOW - TOREVA
HIGHWAY
DEDICATED TO THE HONORABLE CARL HAYDEN, UNITED STATES SENATOR, AND TO THE HONORABLE FRANK R. GOODMAN, FORMER STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER, BOTH BEING GOOD ROADS ADVOCATES, WHO BY THEIR CLOSE APPLICATION AND UNTIRING EFFORTS CONTRIBUTED MUCH TO ESTABLISHMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE WINSLOW - TOREVA HIGHWAY.
1966
SR 88 MP 208
CANYON LAKE
FORMED BY
MORMON FLAT DAM
A WATER STORAGE RESERVOIR BUILT BY THE
SALT RIVER PROJECT--1925
WATER STORAGE CAPACITY: 57,852 ACRE FEET
HYDRO-ELECTRIC GENERATING CAPACITY: 10,000 KILOWATTS
ARIZONA GROWS WHERE WATER FLOWS
“POWER WITH A PURPOSE”
PROJECT ELECTRICITY
MAKES POSSIBLE A DEPENDABLE SUPPLY OF VITAL WATER AT LOW COST....FOR PHOENIX AND THE SALT RIVER VALLEY
IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE TONTO NATIONAL FOREST SALT RIVER PROJECT LAKES PROVIDE RECREATION FOR THOUSANDS OF ARIZONANS
SR 88 MP 229
APACHE LAKE
FORMED BY
HORSE MESA DAM
A WATER STORAGE RESERVOIR BUILT BY THE SALT RIVER PROJECT - 1927
WATER STORAGE CAPACITY:245,038 ACRE FEET
HYDRO-ELECTRIC GENERATING CAPACITY:
33,000 KILOWATTS
ARIZONA GROWS WHERE WATER FLOWS
“POWER WITH A PURPOSE” PROJECT ELECTRICITY MAKES POSSIBLE A DEPENDABLE SUPPLY OF VITAL WATER AT LOW COST FOR PHOENIX AND THE SALT RIVER VALLEY
IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE TONTO NATIONAL FOREST SALT RIVER LAKES PROVIDE RECREATION FOR
OF ARIZONANS
SR 88 MP 241
ROOSEVELT DAM
“ROOSEVELT LAKE
FORMED BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT DAM
A WATER STORAGE RESERVOIR BUILT FOR THE SALT RIVER PROJECT BY THE BUREAU
OF RECLAMATION 1905 - 1911
WATER STORAGE CAPACITY 1,381,580 ACRE FT.
PROVIDING WATER STORAGE AND POWER
PROJECT ELECTRICITY MAKES POSSIBLE A
DEPENDABLE SUPPLY OF LOW COST WATER
FOR THE
METROPOLITAN PHOENIX AREA
IN COOPERATION WITH THE
TONTO NATIONAL FOREST
SALT RIVER PROJECT LAKES PROVIDE
PUBLIC RECREATION”.
(CONT.)
SR 88 MP 241
ROOSEVELT DAM (CONT.)
B. BRONZE PLAQUE, TOP LEFT -
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT DAM HAS BEEN DESIGNATED A REGISTERED NATIONAL
HISTORIC LANDMARK UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE HISTORIC SITES ACT OF AUGUST 21, 1935. THIS SITE POSSESSES EXCEPTIONAL VALUE IN COMMEMORATING AND ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1963.”
C. BRONZE PLAQUE, TOP RIGHT
“ON MARCH 28, 1906 AT THE SITE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT DAM A 900 KILOWATT GENERATOR PRODUCED RECLAMATIONS FIRST HYDROELECTRIC POWER. THE POWER HELPED BUILD THE DAM WHICH NOW HAS A 20,000 KILOWATT GENERATING PLANT. THE SALT RIVER PROJECT....AMERICA’S FIRST MULTI-PURPOSE RECLAMATION DEVELOPMENT....
ESTABLISHED THE PRINCIPLE THAT POWER IS THE PAYING PARTNER OF WATER.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION.”
(CONT.)
SR 88 MP 241
ROOSEVELT DAM (CONT.)
D. BRONZE PLAQUE, BOTTOM LEFT -
“NATIONAL HISTORIC CIVIL ENGINEERING LANDMARK.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT DAM
AND
SALT RIVER PROJECT
ASCE 1971.”
SR 89 MP 252
IN MEMORY
HENRY WICKENBURG
THE DISCOVERER OF THE FABULOUSLY RICH VULTURE MINE AND THE MAN FOR WHOM THE TOWN OF WICKENBURG WAS NAMED CAME TO ARIZONA AS A PROSPECTOR IN 1862.
LEGEND TELLS US THAT THIS INTREPID FRONTIERSMAN, A NATIVE OF RUSSIA, FOUND THE VULTURE GOLD IN CHUNKS OF ROCK HE WAS THROWING AT A RECALCITRANT BURRO.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE MINE LED TO BRISK MILLING ACTIVITY ALONG THE HASSAYAMPA RIVER WITH SUBSEQUENT GROWTH OF THE TOWN OF WICKENBURG, WHICH AT THAT TIME BECAME ONE OF THE LARGEST IN THE TERRITORY.
WHILE THE MINE BROUGHT GREAT WEALTH TO MANY, DESTINY WILLED THAT HENRY WICKENBURG WAS NEVER TO REALIZE THE FORTUNE THAT WAS HIS DUE.
IN 1905 DEATH, SELF-INFLICTED, CAME FOR HIM AT SUNSET ON THIS 86TH BIRTHDAY.
HE IS BURIED UNDER A CONCRETE CRYPT ON A NOLL OVERLOOKING HIS HOME AND HIS BELOVED HASSAYAMPA. HIS LIFE STORY IS AN IMPORTANT CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WEST.
SR 89 MP 274
ERECTED
IN MEMORY OF
CHARLES CHURCHILL SMALL
MEMBER AMERICAN SOCIETY OF
CIVIL ENGINEERS
1872 1932
FATHER OF ARIZONA HIGHWAYS
SR 89 MP 289
RUINS OF
WALNUT GROVE DAM
THOUGH 135 FT. AT THE BASE
AND STANDING 110 FT. HIGH, THIS
DAM WEAKENED AND COLLAPSED DURING
THE NIGHT OF FEBRUARY 22, 1890.
THE RUSHING WATER TOOK MORE THAN
50 LIVES AND SWEPT AWAY EVERYTHING
IN ITS PATH. DAMAGE EXTENDED AS FAR
DOWNSTREAM AS WICKENBURG. THE DAM
WAS NEVER REBUILT.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1965
SR 89 MP 306
WELCOME TO PRESCOTT
HOWDY, PARTNER! YOU ARE APPROACHING PRESCOTT, THE MILE-HIGH CITY. FORMER TERRITORIAL CAPITAL OF ARIZONA, AND PRESENT SEAT OF YAVAPAI COUNTY. FOUNDED IN 1864 AND NAMED FOR WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT, 1796-1859, ABLE HISTORIAN OF THE SOUTHWEST. PRESCOTT IS SITUATED ON GRANITE CREEK, AN EARLY SOURCE OF PLACER GOLD. IT IS A MINING AND RANCHING CENTER, AND ONE OF THE HEALTHIEST PARTS OF THE STATE, BEING ESPECIALLY NOTED FOR ASTHMA RELIEF.
LOCATED HERE IS WHIPPLE VETERANS HOSPITAL, OF 531 BEDS, BUILT ON THE SITE OF OLD FT. WHIPPLE U.S. ARMY POST, ESTABLISHED 1863. PRESCOTT IS THE HOME OF FRONTIER DAYS OLDEST RODEO IN THE WEST. THE SMOKI PEOPLE, A GROUP OF CITIZENS ORGANIZED TO PRESERVE INDIAN CULTURE AND CEREMONY, DANCE HERE EACH AUGUST. AT PRESCOTT IS THE ARIZONA PIONEER’S HOME, AND GRAND CANYON COLLEGE. BE SURE TO VISIT THE HISTORIC GOVERNOR’S MANSION ON WEST GURLEY ST.
GATEWAY TO THE PRESCOTT NATIONL FOREST YEARLONG RECREATION. STAY AND ENJOY OUR COOL CLIMATE AND WARM HOSPITALITY. THIS SIGN SPONSORED BY THE PRESCOTT ROTARY CLUB.
SR 89 MP 312
THIS PARK IS DEDICATED
TO THE VETERANS OF ALL UNITED STATES WARS
IN RECOGNITION OF THEIR COURAGE AND SACRIFICE
IN THE SERVICE OF OUR COUNTRY
FOR THE PRIMARY USE OF THOSE IN RESIDENCE AT
FORT WHIPPLE AND PRESCOTT
* * * * * * * *
CONSTRUCTED AND ERECTED BY
THE CITY OF PRESCOTT
AND
THE ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
JULY 4, 1954
SR 89 MP 316
WELCOME TO PRESCOTT
HOWDY, PARTNER! YOU ARE APPROACHING PRESCOTT, THE MILE-HIGH CITY. FORMER TERRITORIAL CAPITAL OF ARIZONA, AND PRESENT SEAT OF YAVAPAI COUNTY. FOUNDED IN 1864 AND NAMED FOR WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT, 1796-1859, ABLE HISTORIAN OF THE SOUTHWEST. PRESCOTT IS SITUATED ON GRANITE CREEK, AN EARLY SOURCE OF PLACER GOLD. IT IS A MINING AND RANCHING CENTER, AND ONE OF THE HEALTHIEST PARTS OF THE STATE, BEING ESPECIALLY NOTED FOR ASTHMA RELIEF.
LOCATED HERE IS WHIPPLE VETERANS HOSPITAL, OF 531 BEDS, BUILT ON THE SITE OF OLD FT. WHIPPLE U.S. ARMY POST, ESTABLISHED 1863. PRESCOTT IS THE HOME OF FRONTIER DAYS OLDEST RODEO IN THE WEST. THE SMOKI PEOPLE, A GROUP OF CITIZENS ORGANIZED TO PRESERVE INDIAN CULTURE AND CEREMONY, DANCE HERE EACH AUGUST. AT PRESCOTT IS THE ARIZONA PIONEER’S HOME, AND GRAND CANYON COLLEGE. BE SURE TO VISIT THE HISTORIC GOVERNOR’S MANSION ON WEST GURLEY ST.
GATEWAY TO THE PRESCOTT NATIONL FOREST YEARLONG RECREATION. STAY AND ENJOY OUR COOL CLIMATE AND WARM HOSPITALITY. THIS SIGN SPONSORED BY THE PRESCOTT ROTARY CLUB.
SR 89 MP 333
DEL RIO SPRINGS
SITE OF
ORIGINAL CAMP WHIPPLE
ESTABLISHED DECEMBER 1863
FROM JANUARY 22 TO MAY 18, 1864 THE OFFICES OF THE TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT OF ARIZONA WERE OPERATED FROM TENTS AND LOG CABINS HERE, BEFORE BEING MOVED TO PRESCOTT THE FIRST PERMANENT CAPITAL.
SR 89 MP 346
HISTORIC 35TH PARALLEL
FOR AGES A ROUTE TRAVELED BY INDIANS MISSIONARIES - TRAPPERS
U.S. ARMY SURVEY IN 1851 BY
CAPTAIN LORENZO SITGREAVES
IN 1854 LT. A.W. WHIPPLE WITH SCIENTISTS & TROOPS MADE A TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY FOR A RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC
1857-9 LT. EDWARD E. BEALE WITH HIS CAMEL CORPS EXPLORED FOR A WAGON ROAD
ROUTE OF THE SANTA FE R.R.
HELL’S CANYON BRIDGE COMPLETED IN 1954
BY ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
MARKER PLACED BY ARIZONA SOCIETY
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1956
SR 89 MP 346
A
TRIBUTE TO
THE
ARMED
FORCES
THAT HAVE
DEFENDED
THE UNITED
STATES
OF
AMERICA
US 89 MP 466
CAMERON
(ORIGINALLY TANNER’S CROSSING)
NAMED FOR ONE OF ARIZONA’S FIRST U.S. SENATORS, A PIONEER IN DEVELOPMENT OF TRAILS AND COPPER MINES IN GRAND CANYON. NEAR HERE WAS THE SITE OF TANNER’S CROSSING OF THE LITTLE COLORADO RIVER ON THE MORMON TRAIL FROM UTAH VIA LEE’S FERRY TO SETTLEMENTS IN ARIZONA AND MEXICO.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
US 89 MP 540
GLEN CANYON BRIDGE
THE WORLD’S HIGHEST STEEL ARCH BRIDGE
700 FEET ABOVE THE COLORADO RIVER
2 YEARS TO BUILD - $4,000,000 IN COST
SPAN OF BRIDGE ARCH, 1,028 FEET
LENGTH OF DECK, 1,271 FEET
VERTICAL RISE OF ARCH, 165 FEET
WIDTH OF ROADWAY, 30 FEET
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - FEBRUARY 20, 1959
US 89 MP 540
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF STEEL CONSTRUCTION, INC.
FOUNDED 1921
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF STEEL CONSTRUCTION
_________
ANNUAL AWARD OF MERIT
MOST BEAUTIFUL STEEL BRIDGE
CLASS I 1959
US 89 MP 540
GLEN CANYON DAM
COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT
DEDICATED BY
THE FIRST LADY
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON
SEPTEMBER 22, 1966
_______
UNITED STATED DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
STEWART L. UDALL, SECRETARY
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
FLOYD E. DOMINY, COMMISSIONER
US 89 MP 540
LAKE POWELL
MAYOR JOHN WESLEY POWELL LED SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION PARTIES DOWN THE GREEN AND COLORADO RIVERS IN 1869 AND IN 1871-72. YEARS LATER POWELL BECAME A LEADER IN GOVERNMENT SCIENCE PROGRAMS, HEADED THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, AND ADVOCATED ENLIGHTENED LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION POLICIES WHICH RESULTED IN THE PASSAGE OF THE RECLAMATION ACT OF 1902. IN COMMEMORATION OF HIS COURAGE, HIS WISDOM, AND HIS YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE, THE RESERVOIR BEHIND GLEN CANYON DAM HAS BEEN NAMED LAKE POWELL.
US 89 MP 549
NATIONAL RECREATION AREA
GLEN CANYON
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
KIEWIT JUDSON PACIFIC MURPHY
1958
US 89 MP 549
GLEN CANYON
BRIDGE
CONSTRUCTED 1957-1959 TO FACILITATE
CONSTRUCTION OF GLEN CANYON DAM AND FOR PUBLIC USE AS A PART OF U.S. HIGHWAY 89.
U.S. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
U.S. BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
DEDICATED FEBRUARY 20, 1959
US 89 MP 549
STATE OF ARIZONA
1959
GOVERNOR
PAUL FANNIN
ARIZONA HIGHWAY COMMISSION
L. F. QUINN CHAIRMAN
F. L. CHRISTENSEN VICE CHAIRMAN
MILTON REAY MEMBER
JOHN J. BUGG MEMBER
WILBUR F. ASBURY MEMBER
JUSTIN HERMAN EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
WM. N. WILLEY STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER
US 89 MP 549
CARL HAYDEN VISITOR CENTER
VISITOR CENTER INFORMATION TOURS OF DAM
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
SR A89 MP 344
JEROME BLAST FURNACE
THIS BLAST FURNACE WAS IN USE IN 1882. THE SMELTER SITE AT THAT TIME WAS WHERE THE BIG OPEN PIT IS AT PRESENT. THIS LITTLE FURNACE USED COKE FOR FUEL. THE NEAREST SOURCE OF SUPPLY WAS WALES, ENGLAND, MORE THAN HALF WAY AROUND THE WORLD IN TRAVEL DISTANCE! SMALL SAILING VESSELS CARRIED THE COKE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AND AROUND THE HORN OF SOUTH AMERICA TO SAN FRANCISCO. FROM THERE IS WAS TRANSPORTED BY RAILROAD TO ASHFORK, ARIZONA WHERE IT WAS LOADED INTO MULE DRAWN FREIGHT WAGONS AND HAULED 60 MILES OVER THE MOUNTAINS TO JEROME. THE PRODUCTION OF THIS FURNACE WAS ABOUT 8,000 LBS. OF COPPER PER DAY COMPARED TO LATER SMELTING OPERATIONS WHICH PRODUCED 457,525 LBS. PER DAY (?) 42,290,460 LBS. DURING THE PEAK YEAR - 1929.
SR A89 MP 344
THIS ROCK (PRESCOTT GRANITE) WAS USED IN DRILLING CONTESTS. GREAT SKILL AND STAMINA WERE REQUIRED IN BOTH SINGLE AND DOUBLE JACK DRILLING.
IN THE TEAM DRILLING CONTEST HELD ON SEPT. 16,1911 ONE CONTESTANT, JIM KENNEDY WAS INJURED WHEN HIS PARTNER’S SLEDGE HANDLE BROKE, THE HAMMER STRIKING HIM IN THE HEAD. HIS TEAM WON BUT KENNEDY DIED FROM THE INJURY.
SR A89 MP 377
INDIAN GARDENS
HOMESITE
OF THE FIRST SETTLER
IN OAK CREEK CANYON
IN 1876 OR 1877, JIM THOMPSON BUILT A LOG CABIN HERE AND BEGAN CULTIVATING THE OLD INDIAN GARDENS WHERE THE INDIANS HAD GROWN CORN AND SQUASH LONG BEFORE OAK CREEK WAS KNOWN TO WHITE MEN. THOMPSON REMAINED HERE AT HIS INDIAN GARDENS GUEST RANCH UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1917.
US A89 MP 537
NAVAJO NATION
A SIX-YOKE TEAM
OF OXEN CLIMB THE
HISTORIC DUGWAY
TRAIL UP FROM LEE’S FERRY
US A89 MP 537
1927 STATE OF ARIZONA 1928
NAVAJO BRIDGE
ARCH 616 FEET TOTAL LENGTH 834 FEET HEIGHT 467 FEET
ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
GEO. W. P. HUNT, GOVERNOR
I.P. McBRIDE, CHAIRMAN - H. THOMPSON, VICE CHAIRMAN - F.G. STEGER, COMMISSIONER - J.F. McDONALD, COMMISSIONER - FLOYD WILLIAMS, COMMISSIONER - M.G. HANKINS, SECRETARY
ENGINEERING ORGANIZATION
W.G. LEFEBVRE, STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER - W.W. LANE, CHIEF ENGINEER -
R.A. HOFFMAN,BRIDGE ENGR.,
L.G. LASHMET, DESIGNING ENGINEER -
R.C. PERKINS AND W.R. HUTCHINS, DISTRICT ENGINEERS - R.G. BOND, RESIDENT ENGINEER - W.K. CLAYPOOL, INSPECTOR
IN COOPERATION WITH
THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
HUBERT WORK, SECRETARY
C.H.BURKE, COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
FABRICATED AND
ERECTED BY THE KANSAS CITY
STRUCTURAL STEEL CO.
US A89 MP 537
NAVAJO BRIDGE
HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE
NATIONAL REGISTER OF
HISTORIC PLACES
BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
OF THE INTERIOR.
AUGUST 13, 1981
US A89 MP 538
NAVAJO BRIDGE
HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE
NATIONAL REGISTER OF
HISTORIC PLACES
BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
OF THE INTERIOR.
AUGUST 13, 1981
US A89 MP 538
IN MEMORY OF
THE ADVERTURESOME SPIRIT OF
GILBERT H. HANSEN
___________
WHO BECAME PART OF
THE RIVER HE LOVED
___________
NEAR POWELLS MUSIC TEMPLE
IN GLEN CANYON
___________
MAY 5, 1912 - MAY 17, 1957
US A89 MP 538
THEY RUN THE RIVERS OF ETERNITY
IN MEMORY OF NORMAN D. NEVILLS
APRIL 9, 1908 - SEPTEMBER 19, 1949
AND DORIS - HIS WIFE
MARCH 11, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 19, 1949
WHO SOUGHT & RAN & MASTERED THE
WILD & SECRET WATERS
SAN JUAN RIVER - GREEN RIVER - COLORADO RIVER - GRAND CANYON - SALMON RIVER - SNAKE RIVER
BY THE RIVERS THEY LOVED SO WELL, IN THE DESERT THAT WAS THEIR HOME, THIS RECORD IS PLACED BY THE CANYONEERS.
US A89 MP 538
IN LOVING MEMORY
LOVIE “DEE” REIFF
WHO WITH ALL HER HEART DEARLY
LOVED THIS CANYON COUNTRY
APRIL 10, 1913 - FEBRUARY 15, 1958
HOYEH DE ATIN
US A89 MP 538
DAUGHTER OF UTAH PIONEERS
NO. 350
ERECTED 1968 - LEE’S FERRY
JOHN D. LEE SETTLED HERE IN DECEMBER, 1871 AND ESTABLISHED FERRY SERVICE THIRTEEN MONTHS LATER. AFTER HER HUSBAND’S DEATH, WARREN M. JOHNSON RAN THE OAR DRIVER FERRY FOR EMMA LEE, 1875 TO 1879, WHEN THE CHURCH OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS PURCHASED HER INTEREST. JOHNSON SERVED UNTIL 1895. HE WAS FOLLOWED BY JAMES S. ERNETT WHO SOLD TO THE GRAND CANYON CATTLE COMPANY IN 1909. COCONINO COUNTY OPERATED THE FERRY FROM 1910 TO 1928.
KANE COUNTY
US A89 MP 538
GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA
LEE’S FERRY STORE AND GAS
UNITED STATED DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
US A89 MP 538
LEE’S FERRY
NORTHERN GATEWAY TO ARIZONA FOR 54 YEARS - FROM 1873 TO 1927 - IS LOCATED SIX MILES UPSTREAM FROM THIS BRIDGE.
_______
THIS MONUMENT ERECTED TO THE FOUNDER
JOHN DOYLE LEE
WHO, WITH SUPERHUMAN EFFORT AND IN THE FACE OF ALMOST INSURMOUNTABLE OBSTACLES, MAINTAINED THIS FERRY WHICH MADE POSSIBLE THE COLONIZATION OF ARIZONA
_______
FRONTIERSMAN, TRAIL BLAZER, BUILDER, A MAN OF GREAT FAITH, SOUND JUDGMENT AND INDOMITABLE COURAGE.
_______
AUTHORITY FOR ERECTION OF THIS MONUMENT GRANTED BY THE STATE OF ARIZONA
1961
US A89 MP 538 LEE FERRY
FROM 1872 TO 1929
PRINCIPAL ROUTE OF TRAVEL
ACROSS THE COLORADO RIVER
TO UTAH SETTLEMENTS
FIRST CROSSING MADE AT THE MOUTH OF PARIA CREEK IN 1864 BY JACOB HAMBLIN. REGULAR FERRY ESTABLISHED BY JOHN DOYLE LEE IN 1872. PURCHASED BY LATTER DAY SAINTS CHURCH AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1877. MAINTAINED CONTINUOUSLY BY PRIVATE AND PUBLIC OPERATORS UNTIL 1929 WHEN NAVAJO BRIDGE WAS COMPLETED.
US A89 MP 557 DOMINGUEZ AND ESCALANTE EXPEDITION
TREACHEROUS DESCENT
FATIGUED BY A THIRTY MILE RIDE, THE PADRES PICKED THEIR WAY DOWN THE ROCKY NORTH SLOPE OF THE KAIBAB PLATEAU TOWARD THE LIGHT OF PAIUTE CAMPFIRES NEAR WHAT IS NOW COYOTE SPRING, 15 MILES NORTH. THE TIMID NATIVES FLED THE APPROACHING SPANIARDS. NO WHITE MAN HAD EVER BEEN IN THIS REGION BEFORE.
COAXED TO RETURN, THE INDIANS BROUGHT PINON NUTS AND TWO ROASTED RABBITS FOR THE HUNGRY EXPLORERS. DURING THE NIGHT, A MEDICINE MAN PERFORMED HIS HEALING RITUAL FOR AN AILING SPANIARD. DOMINGUEZ AND ESCALANTE WERE FURIOUS OVER A CATHOLIC’S PARTICIPATION IN THE PAGAN RITES. AFTER ADMONISHING THEIR COMPANION FOR HIS FRAIL FAITH, THE FATHERS IMPLORED THE INDIANS TO CEASE THEIR SUPERSTITIOUS CEREMONIES, BE BAPTIZED, AND EMBRACE CHRISTIANITY.
(CONT.)
US A89 MP 557 (CONT.)
THE DOMINGUEZ-ESCALANTE EXPEDITION WAS UNCOMMON IN THE HISTORY OF THE WEST. SEARCHING FOR A SAFE OVERLAND ROUTE FROM SANTA FE TO MONTEREY, THE PADRES WERE DETERMINED TO ESTABLISH RAPPORT WITH TRIBES ALONG THE WAY. THEY DID NOT REACH MONTEREY. HOWEVER, THEIR REGARD FOR THE NATIVES ALLOWED THEM TO TRAVEL THE 1700 MILES WITHOUT A SHOT BEING FIRED OR A WORD OF ANGER UTTERED BETWEEN SPANIARD AND INDIAN.
THIS MARKER WAS PLACED ON THE KAIBAB PLATEAU BY THE ARIZONA BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION - 1976.
US A89 MP 609 NO. 29
ERECTED SEPT. 2, 1933
PIPE SPRINGS NATIONAL MONUMENT
FIFTEEN MILES SOUTHWEST IS HISTORIC
PIPE SPRINGS EARLY PIONEER OUTPOST AND FIRST TELEGRAPH STATION IN ARIZONA
UTAH PIONEER TRAILS AND LANDMARKS ASSOCIATION
AND THE CITIZENS OF KANAB STAKE
US A89 MP 610 DOMINGUEZ AND ESCALANTE EXPEDITION
PRICKLY PEARS AND PINON NUTS
A WORN AND HUNGRY BAND OF SPANISH EXPLORERS MADE CAMP AT JOHNSON WASH, SIX MILES TO THE EAST, ON OCTOBER 21, 1776. FATHERS DOMINGUEZ AND ESCALANTE CALLED IT SANTA BARBARA. THEY FOUND NO WATER FOR HORSES OR THE MEN WHO WERE SUBSISTING ON MEAGER SUPPLIES OF PINON NUTS AND PRICKLY-PEAR CAKES OBTAINED IN TRADE FROM THE LOCAL PAIUTES.
THE SPANIARDS HAD ALREADY SPENT NIGHTS WITHOUT WATER AND ONLY MINIMAL NOURISHMENT. LORENZO DE OLIVARES WAS NEARLY MAD WITH THIRST AFTER EATING TOO MANY OF THE SALTY CACTUS CAKES. HE DISAPPEARED THAT EVENING STUMBLING UP THE WASH. HAVING WORRIED ABOUT THEIR COMPANION ALL NIGHT, THE PADRES FOUND HIM THE NEXT MORNING AT SOME SMALL POOLS NEAR THE BASE OF THE RED SHINARUMP CLIFFS TO THE NORTH.
(CONT.)
US A89 MP 610 (CONT.)
THE TERRITORY KNOWN AS THE ARIZONA STRIP CONFRONTED THE EXPEDITION WITH SOME OF ITS MOST BRUTAL DIFFICULTIES. WANDERING FIRST SOUTHEASTERLY THEN NORTH, WITHOUT THE AID OF NATIVE GUIDES, THEY STRUGGLED THROUGH A HARSH AND RUTTED LAND SEARCHING FOR THE UTE CROSSING OF THE COLORADO RIVER.
DOMINGUEZ AND ESCALANTE RETURNED TO SANTA FE IN JANUARY, 1777, AFTER EXPLORING MUCH OF WHAT IS NOW THE FOUR CORNERS REGION BUT HAVING FAILED IN THEIR EFFORT TO OPEN A LAND ROUTE TO SPANISH SETTLEMENTS AT MONTEREY.
THIS MONUMENT WAS PRESENTED TO THE TOWN OF FREDONIA BY THE ARIZONA BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION - 1976.
US A89 MP 612 BLUE STAR
MEMORIAL HIGHWAY
A TRIBUTE TO THE ARMED FORCES
THAT HAVE DEFENDED THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SPONSORED BY
ARIZONA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS
IN COOPERATION WITH
ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
SR 90 MP 314 FORT HUACHUCA
(1877)
SITUATED ON THE SOUTHERN ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. IT BROUGHT LAW AND ORDER TO THE ARIZONA TERRITORY, PROTECTING SETTLERS, MINERS, TRAVELERS AND IMMIGRANTS. IT’S TROOPS WON THE SURRENDER OF GERONIMO. GENERALS PERSHING AND WOOD SERVED HERE. AS THE ARMY’S ELECTRONIC PROVING GROUND HUACHUCA ALONE OF ALL OUR MILITARY POSTS REMAINS ON ACTIVE STATUS.
ERECTED BY THE ARIZONA SOCIETY
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1957
SR 90 MP 318 FORT HUACHUCA
ESTABLISHED IN 1877 AS THE SOUTHERN
LINK OF A MILITARY CHAIN ACROSS
ARIZONA TO PREVENT APACHE
FROM RAIDING INTO MEXICO. IT HAS
BEEN AN IMPORTANT TRAINING CENTER FOR
ARMY FIELD OPERATION FOR HALF A
CENTURY, GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING
SERVED HERE AS A LIEUTENANT.
SR 90 MP 329 MORMON
L.D.S. CHURCH
BATTALION
CAMP SITE DEC. 1846
HERD
WILD HORSES & BLACK BULLS
ERECTED
BY POST # __
SR 92 MP 340 MORMON
LDS CHURCH
BATTALION
DEC 9, 1846
FIRST CAMP ON
SAN PEDRO
BEAR - ANTEPLOE
IN AREA
ERECTED 1960
BY TROOP 14
US 93 MP 028 GHOST TOWN OF WHITE HILLS
EIGHT MILES NORTHEAST ALONG THIS ROAD ARE THE RUINS OF WHITE HILLS, ONCE A MINING BOOM TOWN. A SIX-YEAR WONDER, FROM 1892 TO 1898 THE MINE PRODUCED 12 MILLION DOLLARS IN GOLD AND SILVER. THE MINERAL DISCOVERY WAS ONE OF THE FEW CREDITED TO AN INDIAN. A HUALAPAI NAMED JEFF. WHITE HILLS HAD TWELVE SALOONS AND TWO CEMETERIES. WATER WAS NEARLY AS EXPENSIVE AS WHISKEY.
US 93 MP 067 JUNCTION, UNION PASS ROAD
OVER WHICH PIONEERS FREIGHTED FROM HARDYVILLE, HEAD OF NAVIGATION ON THE COLORADO RIVER, TO MOHAVE AND YAVAPAI COUNTY SETTLEMENTS.
HARDYVILLE ESTABLISHED IN 1864, BY
“CAPT.” WM. H. HARDY
PIONEER, FERRYMAN, MERCHANT,
POSTMASTER, STOCKMAN, MINER,
TRAIL BLAZER, ROAD BUILDER
AND LEGISLATOR.
US 93 MP 123 BIG SANDY VALLEY
FIRST EXPLORATION, PROBABLY BY EARLY SPANISH EXPLORERS, ESPEJO, 1582-FRAFAN, 1589. EXPLORED BY PARTY UNDER LT. AMIEL W. WHIPPLE, 1854. IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL, MINING, MILLING & SMELTING AREA IN EARLY DAYS. McCRACKIN MINE, DISCOVERED BY JACKSON McCRACKIN & H. A. (“CLORIDE JACK”) OWEN, AUG. 17, 1874, 18 MILES SOUTH. SIGNAL MINE 12 MILES SOUTH. STAMP MILLS AT GREENWOOD, 8 MILES SOUTHWEST & VIRGINIA CITY, 9 MILES SOUTHWEST. COFER HOT SPRINGS 3 MILES EAST.
HOME OF MOHAVE COUNTY LEGISLATORS
JOHN A. BEHAN
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1879
ADAMSON CORNWALL
COUNCIL, 1881, 1887
WALLACE A. (“JAKE”) NEAL JR.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1921
CARL KROOK
US 93 MP 160 BILL WILLIAMS RIVER
THE SANTA MARIA RIVER COMBINES WITH THE BIG SANDY TO FORM BILL WILLIAM RIVER, WHICH WAS EXPLORED AS EARLY AS 1605 BY SPANISH. NAMED FOR AN EARLY TRAPPER AND MOUNTAIN MAN, THE RIVER YIELDED BEAVER TO INTREPID TRAPPERS WHO CAME WEST FROM SANTA FE. THE COMBINED STREAM EMPTIES INTO THE COLORADO.
US 93 MP 174 CAMP DATE CREEK
(ESTABLISHED 1867)
IN 1871 THIS CAMP BECAME DATE CREEK AGENCY, WHERE MOHAVE-APACHES WERE GIVEN FOOD RATIONS IN VAIN ATTEMPTS TO STOP THEIR RAIDS. HERE, IN 1872 GENERAL CROOK’S TROOPS KILLED EIGHT INDIANS WHO WERE THOUGHT TO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE NOTORIOUS WICKENBURG MASSACRE OF A STAGECOACH.
SR 95 MP 234 OATMAN
FIFTEEN MILES EAST, IN THE BLACK MOUNTAINS. IS THE HISTORIC OATMAN MINING DISTRICT, MANY ORIGINAL BUILDINGS STILL EXIST IN THE GHOST TOWN SITE. THE TOM REED, UNITED EASTERN, GOLD ROAD AND OTHER MINES PRODUCED MORE THAN THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS OF GOLD FROM THE EARLY 1900’S INTO THE 1930’S.
SR 95 MP 247 BULLHEAD COMMUNITY PARK
COMMERCIAL STEAMSHIP TRANSPORTATION ON THE COLORADO RIVER WAS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE FROM 1852 THROUGH 1877. IT SERVED THE MINING COMMUNITIES OF NORTHERN ARIZONA. CARGO WAS UNLOADED AT HARDYVILLE, 1 1/2 MILES SOUTH OF THIS POINT, SOMETIMES RETURNING DOWNSTREAM WITH BARGE LOADS OF LOCAL ORE.
BULL’S HEAD ROCK, FROM WHICH BULLHEAD CITY DERIVED ITS NAME, WAS LOCATED UPSTREAM FROM THIS POINT AND SINCE 1953, HAS BEEN COVERED BY THE WATERS OF DAVIS DAM. IT WAS ONCE USED AS A NAVIGATION MARKER AND WAS LOCATED AT A POINT WHERE THE MOHAVE INDIANS FORDED THE RIVER, AS IT WAS FREE OF QUICKSAND. IN THIS BICENTENNIAL YEAR, 1976, THE CITIZENS OF THE BULLHEAD AREA DEDICATE THIS LANDMARK TO THE BULLHEAD COMMUNITY PARK IN COMMEMORATION TO THE PEOPLES OF YESTERDAY.
US 160 MP 344.3 UTAH PIONEERS TRAILS
NO. 77
ERECTED MAY 1938
IN HONOR OF GEORGE A. SMITH, JR.
A MEMBER OF JACOB HAMBLIN’S PARTY OF NINE MORMON MISSIONARIES AND EXPLORERS WHO WAS FATALLY WOUNDED WITH HIS OWN REVOLVER BY INDIANS NOVEMBER 2, 1880 PRESUMABLY TO AVENGE THE KILLING OF INDIANS BY WHITE MEN SHORTLY BEFORE. HE DIED WHILE BEING CARRIED ON HORSEBACK TO REACH MEDICAL AID. HIS COMPANIONS, TO SAVE THEIR OWN LIVES, WERE FORCED TO LEAVE HIS BODY WRAPPED IN A BLANKET UNBURIED.
SR 177 MP
SONORA, ARIZONA
IMMIGRANT MEXICAN MINERS WORKING
FOR THE RAY CONSOLIDATED COPPER
COMPANY NAMED THE TOWN OF SONORA
BUILT NEAR HERE IN 1911. IT BOOMED AS
A THRIVING, DYNAMIC COMMUNITY, RICH IN
MEXICAN CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND
TRADITIONS. IN THE MID – 1950S, THE
COMPANY BEGAN TO EXPAND ITS OPEN PIT
OPERATION, GRADUALLY ADVANCING UPON
THE TOWN FROM THE EAST. BY 1965, IT
BECAME NECESSARY TO CLOSE SONORA
AND RELOCATE THE MINERS TO A NEW
TOWN NAMED KEARNY. SONORA WAS
DEMOLISHED IN 1966.
SONORA’S CLOSE – KNIT RESIDENTS SHARED
COMMON BONDS OF FAMILY, FRIENDSHIP AND
THE DREAM OF A BETTER LIFE. ALTHOUGH
THEY WERE MOVED AND SCATTERED, MANY
WENT ON TO FULFILL THEIR DREAMS,
BECOMING SUCCESSDFUL IN BUSINESS, PUBLIC
SERVICE, AND EDUCATION. THE TOWN OF
SONORA CONTINUES TO LIVE IN THE MEMORIES
OF THE ORIGINAL SETTLERS AND THEIR
DESCENDANTS.
ADOT 1999
SR 179 MP 301.6
BEAVERHEAD STAGE STATION
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
US 180 MP 380
LYMAN DAM
ON THE LITTLE COLORADO RIVER
THE ORIGINAL DAM AT THIS SITE WAS DESTROYED IN THE SPRING FLOODS OF APRIL 1915, WITH THE LOSS OF EIGHT LIVES AND SEVERE DAMAGE TO FARMLANDS. IT WAS REBUILT WITH LOANS FROM THE STATE OF ARIZONA.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
1961
US 180 MP 427
HERE STOOD
THE OLD BUSHVALLEY FORT
BUILT 1879
FOR PROTECTION AGAINST
RENEGADE APACHES
SR 181 MP 064
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THESE PIONEERS THEY CAME WHEN ONLY THE BRAVE DARED COME:
THEY STAYED WHERE ONLY THE VALIANT COULD STAY.
BORN IN SWEDEN. AMERICANS BY CHOICE-NOT BY ACCIDENT OF BIRTH. THEY LOVED THEIR ADOPTED COUNTRY AND SERVED HER WELL.
NEIL
SERVED FIVE YEARS IN THE ARMY DURING THE
INDIAN WARS AND THEN TWENTY FIVE YEARS AS AN OFFICER IN THE UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE.
EMMA SOPHIA
AS WIFE, MOTHER, FRIEND, GOD’S SPIRIT WAS IMBUED WITHIN HER. PERILS OF INDIAN WARFARE, INCESSANT TOIL AND LONELINESS OF A PIONEER LAND - NOTHING DAUNTED HER, THIS VALIANT LADY, OUR MOTHER.
THEY CARVED A HOME FROM THE WILDERNESS
WITH THE WARP OF LABOR AND THE WOOF OF DREAMS THEY WOVE A PATTERN OF LIFE AS BEAUTIFUL AS THE SUNSETS AND AS ENDURING AS THE MOUNTAINS THEY LOVED SO WELL.
SR 188 MP 242 AL SEIBER
“AL SEIBER, VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR, AND FOR TWENTY YEARS A LEADER OF SCOUTS FOR THE U. S. ARMY IN ARIZONA INDIAN TROUBLES, WAS KILLED ON THIS SPOT FEBRUARY 19, 1907 BY A ROLLING ROCK DURING CONSTRUCTION OF TONTO ROAD. HIS BODY IS BURIED IN THE CEMETARY AT GLOBE.”
US 191 MP 038 CHIRICAHUA
NATIONAL MONUMENT
“THE WONDERLAND OF ROCKS”
AN OLD LAVA FLOW HAS BEEN
ERODED UNTIL THOUSANDS OF
PINNACLES-BALANCED ROCKS-
AND GROTESQUE ROCK FORMS
CROWD CANYONS AND MOUN-
TAIN SLOPES-THESE MOUNTAINS
WERE THE HOME OF THE CHIRI-
CAHUA APACHE-MOST FAMOUS
OF WHOM WAS GERONIMO---
CAMGROUND AND MUSEUM-
THE DONS
US 191 MP 163 SAN FRANCISCO RIVER
IN JANUARY OF 1825, A TRAPPER NAMED JAMES D. PATTIE, ASCENDED THIS RIVER AND WITH ONE COMPANION IN 14 DAYS TRAPPED 250 BEAVERS. THIS WAS THE FIRST KNOWN PENETRATION OF ARIZONA BY AMERICAN CITIZENS.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
1962
US 191 MP 164 CLIFTON CLIFF JAIL
BLASTED FROM LIVING ROCK, THIS JAIL
CONFINED MANY OF THE BAD MEN WHO
CROWDED INTO THE DISTRICT IN THE
BOOM DAYS. LOCAL TRADITION SAYS THAT
THE FIRST INMATE IN 1881 WAS THE
MINER WHO BUILT THE JAIL. IT WAS
CONTRIBUTED TO THE TOWN BY THE
LESINSKY BROTHERS WHO BUILT THE
FIRST COPPER SMELTER ON CHASE CREEK.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
A.H.D.
1962
US 191 MP 170 RUINS OF METCALF
FIRST CLAIMS LOCATED
HERE IN 1872
ARIZONA CENTRAL YANKIE AND MONTEZUMA CLAIMS WERE LATER GROUPED WITH SHANNON AND LONG FELLOW MINES TO FORM COPPER MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT. H. A. AND CHARLES LESINSKY IN 1873 BUILT THE FIRST SMELTER AND THEN ARIZONA’S FIRST RAILROAD, A NARROW GAUGE LINE RUNNING UP CHASE CREEK CANYON.
US 191 MP 233 CLIFTON - SPRINGERVILLE
HIGHWAY
“THE CORONADO TRAIL”
DEDICATED JUNE 19th 1926
SR 260 MP 234 GENERAL CROOK TRAIL
13 MILE ROCK
EACH MILE WAS MARKED ON THIS TRAIL FROM CAMP VERDE TO CAMP APACHE BY THE SOLDIERS UNDER GENERAL GEORGE CROOK, CONQUEROR, BUT ALSO FRIEND OF THE INDIANS. FIRST TRAVERSED IN 1871, THE ROAD WAS IMPROVED AND USED BY WAGONS IN 1874. IT WAS THE PRINCIPAL SUPPLY ROUTE FROM FORT WHIPPLE, AT PRESCOTT, TO CAMP VERDE AND CAMP APACHE.
CAMP VERDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
COCONINO NATIONAL FOREST
SR 260 MP 268 ZANE GREY’S CABIN
AN OHIO BORN DENTIST, ZANE GREY SPENT MANY YEARS UNDER THE MOGOLLON RIM, WRITING “TO THE LAST MAN” AND A DOZEN OTHER WESTERNS WITH ARIZONA SETTINGS AND CHARACTERS. HIS PROLIFIC WRITINGS POPULARIZED THE AMERICAN COWBOY AS A TACITURN, ROMANTIC FIGURE.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
SR 260 MP 357 COOLEY MOUNTAIN
NAMED FOR CORYDON E. COOLEY, A VIRGINIAN WHO WAS AN OFFICER IN THE NEW MEXICO UNION VOLUNTEERS IN THE CIVIL WAR: ALSO A GUIDE, SCOUT AND INDIAN INTERPRETER. HE SERVED THE U.S. ARMY IN CAMPAIGNS AGAINST THE APACHES, YET WAS RESPECTED AS A FRIEND BY THE NATIVES. HE MARRIED MOLLIE, AN APACHE GIRL AND WAS CO-FOUNDER OF SHOW LOW. COOLEY’S CIENEGA RANCH BECAME THE TOWN OF McNARY.
SR 264 MP 323 NEAR HERE IN 1879
MORMON COLONISTS BUILT
ARIZONA’S FIRST
WOOLEN MILL
HOPING TO UTILIZE HOPI AND NAVAJO WOOL AND LABOR,THE MORMONS INTENDED TO BUILD A NEW INDUSTRY TO SUPPLY THE EARLY SETTLERS. THE 192 - SPINDLE MILL OPERATED ONLY A SHORT TIME, ITS ABANDONMENT SIGNALING FAILURE OF THE MISSIONARY MOVEMENT AMONG THE HOPI’S.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1965
SR 264 MP 472 CHIEF HASTELE
CIRCA 1810 - 1890
IN MEMORY OF CHIEF HASTELE, THE GREAT NAVAJO LEADER WHO PROVED HIMSELF A TRUE FRIEND OF THE MORMON PEOPLE IN BRINGING PEACE AND GOODWILL TO BOTH ANGLOS AND INDIANS.
HE WAS AN HONORED FRIEND OF JACOB HAMBLIN, FAMED LATTER-DAY MISSIONARY, INDIAN GUIDE, PEACEMAKER, SOMETIMES KNOWN AS THE “BUCKSKIN APOSTLE”, CHIEF HASTELE WAS ALSO FAMED FOR HIS INTEGRITY AND DEEP CONCERN FOR TRUTH. THIS EXEMPLIFIED IN HIS OFT-QUOTED STATEMENT , “MY HEART IS CLEAN”.
OFFICIAL MARKER
UTAH PIONEER
TRAIL AND LANDMARKS ASSOCIATION
SR 287 MP 139 GHOST TOWN OF
ADAMSVILLE
IN THE 1870’S, A FLOUR MILL AND A FEW STORES FORMED THE HUB OF LIFE IN ADAMSVILLE, WHERE SHOOTINGS AND KNIFINGS WERE COMMONPLACE, AND LIFE WAS ONE OF THE CHEAPEST COMMODITIES. MOST OF THE ADOBE HOUSES HAVE BEEN WASHED AWAY BY THE FLOODING GILA RIVER.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
IN TUCSON MILITARY PLAZA
THIS AREA WAS OCCUPIED BY THE CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS ON MAY 20, 1862 AFTER THE CONFEDERATE TROOPS HAD WITHDRAWN FROM TUCSON. IT BECAME THE ORIGINAL CAMP LOWELL IN 1866, SUPPLY HEADQUARTERS FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA UNTIL A LARGER POST WAS BUILT SEVEN MILES NORTHEAST ON RILLETO CREEK IN 1873.
IN TUCSON MISSION SAN JOSE DEL TUCSON
BUILT BETWEEN 1775 AND 1780 BY THE FRANCISCANS TO SERVE AS CHURCH AND INDUSTRIAL ARTS SCHOOL FOR PIMA AND PAPAGO RESIDENTS OF THE AREA. ALSO KNOWN AS SAN COSME DEL TUCSON.
POSSIBLY THE FIRST CHURCH SCHOOL IN ARIZONA THAT TAUGHT USEFUL ARTS AS WELL AS CHRISTIANITY.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
- 1957 -
IN TUCSON SITE OF ARIZONA’S
SECOND TERRITORIAL CAPITOL
AN ADOBE BUILDING AT THIS SITE HOUSED
ARIZONA’S GOVERNMENT FROM 1868 - 1877,
WHEN TUCSON WAS CAPITOL OF THE
TERRITORY. ONE OF THE MEETING ROOMS
OF THIS SECOND TERRITORIAL CAPITOL
BECAME THE HOME OF THE PIONEER
DRACHMAN FAMILY.

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INTRODUCTION
THE BASIC PURPOSE OF THIS DOCUMENT IS TO LIST ALL HISTORICAL MARKERS MAINTAINED BY THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION (ADOT) AND LOCATED WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT’S RIGHT OF WAY. PROVIDED IN THIS DOCUMENT IS THE HISTORIC MARKER TITLE AND TEXT. HISTORIC MARKERS ARE LOCATED AND LISTED HEREIN BY HIGHWAY ROUTE NUMBER AND ROUTE MILEPOST (SHOWN TO NEAREST MILEPOST, MAY NOT BE LOCATED AT THAT EXACT LOCATION). THIS INFORMATION IS PROVIDED FOR THE USE OF THE TRAVELING PUBLIC. IT IS PRESENTED IN LARGE PRINT, WITHOUT CHARGE, TO PERSONS WHO HAVE A DISABILITY THAT SUBSTANTIALLY LIMITS THEIR ABILITY TO READ HISTORICAL MARKERS. ADDITIONAL COPIES OF THIS DOCUMENT ARE AVAILABLE AT ROADSIDE DEVELOPMENT SECTION, ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION, 205 SOUTH 17TH AVENUE, MAIL DROP 617E, PHOENIX, ARIZONA 85007, PHONE (602) 712-7357.
PREVIOUS HISTORICAL MARKER INVENTORIES WERE USED AS REFERENCE MATERIAL TO VERIFY CURRENT MARKERS TEXT AND LOCATIONS.
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B-8 MP 000 TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARIZONA HISTORICAL MARKERS
March 19, 1997
MILE
ROUTE POST TITLE
B-8 000 Yuma Crossing
B-8 000 Blue Star Memorial Highway
B-8 000.2 Arizona’s Territorial Prison
I-8 014.5 El Camino Del Diablo (The Devil’s Highway)
B-10 305 Mormon Battalion, LDS Church
B-10 364 Old Fort Bowie
I-10 EB 182.2 Gila River Indian Reservation
I-10 WB 182.2 Gila River Indian Reservation
I-10 219 Mormon Batallion Trail #71
I-10 219 Battle of Picacho
I-10 219 Civil War Monument
I-10 320 Council Rocks
I-10 EB 388 Percy Jones Jr., Memorial
I-10 WB 388 Percy Jones Jr., Memorial
I-17 242 Black Canyon Highway (Old SR 69)
I-17 284 Copper Canyon Route to the Verde Valley
I-17 285 Camp Verde
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B-19 004 Blue Star Memorial Highway
B-19 005 Pete Kitchen
B-19 059 Mission San Xavier DelBac
B-19 062 First Municipal Airport in the United States
I-19 009 Ghost Town of Calabasas
I-19 022 Tubac
B-40 163 Bill Williams Mountain
I-40 EB 253 Sunset Crossing
I-40 EB 266 Sunset Crossing on the Little Colorado River
I-40 WB 358 Max Ortega
I-40 WB 358 Dominguez-Escalante Expedition 1776-1976
US 60 018 The Last Camp of Hi Jolly
US 60 019 Tyson Wells, Old Stage Station
US 60 056 Salome, Where She Danced
US 60 106 Wickenburg Massacre
US 60 107 Vulture Mine
US 60 109 Crypt of Henry Wickenburg
US 60 110 Hassayampa Legend
US 60 166 Original Site of Phoenix
US 60 168 S (Frenchy) Sawyer
US 60 170 Dedicated to Early Settlers
US 60 170 USA Work Program - W.P.A.
Hunt Bass Hatchery
US 60 170 Clark Dam - Hunt Bass Hatchery
US 60 171 USA Work Program (W.P.A.)
US 60 171 Governor Hunt’s Tomb
v US 60 171 Hayden’s Ferry
US 60 171 Memorial to Anderson Moeur
US 60 171 Old Tempe Bridge (1913)
US 60 171 Tempe Bridge (1931)
US 60 195 Legend of the Lost Dutchman Mine
US 60 204 Jefferson Davis Highway
US 60 223 Picket Post Mountain
US 60 246 Miami-Superior Highway
US 60 248 Old Dominion Mine
US 60 265 McMillenville Ghost Mining Camp
US 60 290 Geological Display
US 60 294 Salt River Canyon Recreation Area
US 60 297 Becker Butte Lookout
US 60 297 Memorial to Julius W. Becker
US 60 387 Madonna of the Trail
SR 64 268 Grand Canyon Airline Tragedy
SR 66 052 Lt. Edward Fitzgerald Beale
SR 66 052 Wagon Route
SR 66 052 Unitd States Army -- Beale’s Springs
SR 66 276 Daughters of Utah Pioneers
SR 66 325 Navajo Springs
SR 69 247 The Woolsey Trail/Old Black Canyon Road
SR 69 280 Old Fort Woolsey
SR 69 283 Old Orchard Ranch
SR 69 293 Prescott
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US 70 273.1 Apacheland Old San Carlos
US 70 302 Geronimo
US 70 306 Fort Thomas
US 70 306 Melvin Jones
US 70 341 The Gila Valley
US 70 344 Solomon (Solomonville)
US 70 347 General Kearney’s Army of the West
US 70 356 Lorenzo and Seth Wright
US 70 364 Horatio Harris Merrill
SR 73 333 Kinishba Ruins
SR 75 392 Apache Grove
SR 77 080 Canada Del Oro
SR 77 161 El Capitan Pass
SR 79 115 Tom Mix Memorial
SR 79 136 Poston’s Butte
SR 80 301 Mormon Battalion
SR 80 314 Memorial to Veterans, Pioneers, Settlers
SR 80 316 Boothill Graveyard
SR 80 317 Tombstone Courthouse
SR 80 319 Tombstone Historic District
SR 80 341 Discovery of Ore
SR 80 343 The Lavender Pit Mine
SR 80 356 Mormon Battalion - Smith Grave
SR 80 389 San Bernardino Land Grant
SR 80 406 Geronimo’s Surrender
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SR 82 016 Johnny Ward Mine
SR 82 019 Mowry Mine
SR 82 040 Mexican Land Grant
SR 82 294 Camp Crittenden
SR 83 058 Vail Sonoita Highway
SR 84 181 Barony of Arizona
SR 85 123 Mormon Battalion Trail
SR 85 145 Gadsden Purchase
SR 85 192 U.S.A. Work Program W.P.A.
SR 85 193 Arizona State Capitol Building
SR 85 195 Carnegie Public Library/Park
SR 86 094 Quijotoa
SR 87 188 James G. Hart Memorial
SR 87 190 Grave of Dr. Carlos Montezuma (Wassaja)
SR 87 190 Camp Reno
SR 87 191 Fort McDowell
SR 87 212 Gilbert A. Duthie
SR 87 235 Officer “Gib” Duthie
SR 87 235 Officer Bob Martin
SR 87 291 The Battle of Big Dry Wash
SR 87 360 Winslow-Toreva Highway (Hayden &
Goodman)
SR 88 208 Canyon Lake
SR 88 229 Apache Lake
SR 88 241 Roosevelt Dam
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SR 89 252 Henry Wickenburg Memorial
SR 89 274 Charles Churchill Small
SR 89 289 Ruins of Walnut Grove Sam
SR 89 306 Welcome to Prescott
SR 89 312 Veterans of All U.S. Wars Park
SR 89 316 Welcome to Prescott
SR 89 333 Del Rio Springs
SR 89 346 Historic 35th Parallel
SR 89 346 Tribute to the Armed Forces
US 89 466 Cameron
US 89 540 Glen Canyon Bridge
US 89 540 Most Beautiful Steel Bridge
US 89 540 Glen Canyon Dam
US 89 540 Lake Powell
US 89 549 Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
US 89 549 Glen Canyon Bridge
US 89 549 State of Arizona, Gov. Paul Fannin
US 89 549 Carl Hayden Visitor Center
SR A89 344 Jerome Blast Furnace
SR A89 344 Rock - Prescott Granite
SR A89 377 Indians Gardens
US A89 537 Navajo Nation
US A89 537 Navajo Bridge
US A89 537 Navajo Bridge Register
US A89 538 Navajo Bridge Register
US A89 538 Gilbert H. Hansen Memorial
US A89 538 Norman D. Nevills Memorial
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US A89 538 Lovie “Dee” Reiff Memorial
US A89 538 Daughter of Utah Pioneers
US A89 538 Glen Canyon National Recreation Area
US A89 538 Lee’s Ferry, John Doyle Lee Memorial
US A89 538 Lee Ferry
US A89 557 Dominguez and Escalante Expedition
US A89 609 Pipe Springs National Monument
US A89 610 Dominguez and Escalante Expedition
US A89 612 Blue Star Memorial Highway
SR 90 314 Fort Huachuca (1877)
SR 90 318 Fort Huachuca
SR 90 329 Mormon Battalion
SR 92 340 Mormon LDS Church Battalion
US 93 028 Ghost Town of White Hills
US 93 067 Junction, Union Pass Road
US 93 123 Big Sandy Valley
US 93 160 Bill Williams River
US 93 174 Camp Date Creek
SR 95 234 Oatman
SR 95 247 Bullhead Community Park
US 160 344.3 Utah Pioneers Trails
SR 177 155.9 Sonora, Arizona
SR 179 301.6 Beaverhead Stage Station
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US 180 380 Lyman Dam
US 180 427 The Old BushValley Fort
SR 181 064 Neil and Emma Sophia Memorial
SR 188 242 Al Seiber Memorial
US 191 038 Chiricahua National Monument
US 191 163 San Francisco River
US 191 164 Clifton Cliff Jail
US 191 170 Ruins of Metcalf
US 191 233 Clifton-Springerville Highway
“The Coronado Trail”
SR 260 234 General Crook Trail
SR 260 268 Zane Grey’s Cabin
SR 260 357 Cooley Mountain
SR 264 323 Arizona’s First Woolen Mill
SR 264 472 Chief Hastele
SR 287 139 Ghost Town of Adamsville
Tucson __ Military Plaza
Tucson __ Mission San Jose Del Tucson
Tucson __ Second Territorial Capitol
xi YUMA CROSSING
FROM 1850 TO 1877 ALL TRAVELERS CROSSING THE COLORADO RIVER USED THE FERRY. SEVERAL OPERATED BETWEEN THE MOUTH OF THE GILA RIVER AND PILOT KNOB. STEAMBOATS ARRIVED ON THE RIVER IN 1850 AND THE FIRST RAILROAD BRIDGE WAS BUILT IN 1877.
B-8 MP 000
BLUE STAR
MEMORIAL HIGHWAY
A TRIBUTE TO THE ARMED FORCES
THAT HAVE DEFENDED THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SPONSORED BY
ARIZONA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS
IN COOPERATION WITH
YUMA COUNTY GARDEN COUNCIL
AND
ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
B-8 MP 000.2
ARIZONA’S TERRITORIAL PRISON
1876 - 1908
BUILT TO HOUSE THE BADMEN WHO WERE THE TERROR OF ARIZONA WHEN IT WAS THE LAST FRONTIER OF THE NATION. ESCAPE FROM THE PRISON WAS DIFFICULT BUT CONFINEMENT IN THE STARK, SUN-BAKED CELLS WAS EVEN WORSE.
I-8 MP 014.5
EL CAMINO DEL DIABLO
(THE DEVIL’S HIGHWAY)
EARLY DAY ROUTE FROM SONORA TO CALIFORNIA OVER THE PATH TAKEN BY FATHER EUSEBIO KINO IN 1700 WHEN HE SOUGHT TO DISCOVER IF CALIFORNIA WAS PART OF THE AMERICA MAINLAND. THE PARCHED DESERT ALONG THIS ROUTE HAS CLAIMED HUNDREDS OF LIVES PARTICULARLY DURING THE CALIFORNIA GOLD RUSH OF 1849.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
B-10 MP 305
MORMON
L.D.S. CHURCH
BATTTALION
DEC. 14,1846
LAST CAMP ON
SAN PEDRO
TURNED WEST
TOWARDS TUCSON
ERECTED 1960
BY POST 64
B-10 MP 364
OLD FORT BOWIE
GUARDIAN OF APACHE PASS
ESTABLISHED 1862 FOLLOWING THE BATTLE OF APACHE PASS. LARGEST CONFLICT IN ARIZONA INDIAN WARS. MASSED APACHES UNDER COCHISE AND MANGAS COLORADAS WERE ROUTED BY HOWITZERS FIRED BY CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS ATTACKED IN THE PASS. FORT BOWIE OVERLOOKED ONLY SPRING FOR MILES.
I-10 MP 182.2 EASTBOUND
GILA RIVER
INDIAN RESERVATION
(ESTABLISHED 1859)
HERE THE FIRST GOVERNMENT INDIAN SCHOOL WAS ESTABLISHED FOR PIMAS AND MARICOPAS IN 1871, WITH REV. CHARLES H. COOK AS TEACHER. IT WAS THE LOCATION OF PIMA VILLAGES, FRIENDLY RESTING PLACE FOR TRAVELERS DURING THE MEXICAN WAR AND THE GOLD RUSH. IT ALSO WAS THE BIRTH PLACE OF IRA HAYES, A PIMA, ONE OF THE U. S. MARINES IN THE FAMED FLAG-RAISING AT IWO JIMA.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1965
I-10 MP 182.2 WESTBOUND
GILA RIVER
INDIAN RESERVATION
(ESTABLISHED 1859)
HERE THE FIRST GOVERNMENT INDIAN SCHOOL WAS ESTABLISHED FOR PIMAS AND MARICOPAS IN 1871, WITH REV. CHARLES H. COOK AS TEACHER. IT WAS THE LOCATION OF PIMA VILLAGES, FRIENDLY RESTING PLACE FOR TRAVELERS DURING THE MEXICAN WAR AND THE GOLD RUSH. IT ALSO WAS THE BIRTH PLACE OF IRA HAYES, A PIMA, ONE OF THE U. S. MARINES IN THE FAMED FLAG-RAISING AT IWO JIMA.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1965
I-10 MP 219
NO 71
ERECTED MAY 15, 1937
MORMON BATTALION
TRAIL #71
THE MORMON BATTALION OF THE U.S. ARMY CAMPED HERE ENROUTE TO CALIFORNIA DECEMBER 17, 1846. DURING THE WAR WITH MEXICO, ON THE LONGEST INFANTRY MARCH OF RECORD, THEY WERE FIRST TO UNFURL THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES IN TUCSON.
THIS MARKER PLACED BY AARONIC PRIESTHOOD, MESA THIRD WARD, MARICOPA STAKE, J. R. PRICE, PRESIDENT, CHARLES E. STANDAGE, CHAIRMAN.
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HUGH DANA, BISHOP
SONS OF BATTALION FRANK K. POMEROY,
H.A. BRIZEE 1ST COUNSELOR
ED BOIL LELAND GLAZIER,
DAN JUDD 2ND COUNSELOR
J. WALLACE BOND, CLERK H. THURBER PAYNE, ASS’T.
I-10 MP 219
BATTLE OF PICACHO
APRIL 15, 1862
WESTERNMOST ACTION
BETWEEN CONFEDERATE & UNION FORCES
IN THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES-DEDICATED
TO CAPT. SHEROD HUNTER’S ARIZONA RANGERS ARIZONA VOLUNTEERS CSA
ERECTED BY CAPT. HUNTER’S ARIZONA
RANGERS CAMP NO. 1202 SONS OF
CONFEDERATE VETERANS
I-10 MP 219
CIVIL WAR MONUMENT
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
I-10 MP 320
FOUR MILES SOUTHEAST AT
COUNCIL ROCKS
APACHE PEACE TREATY WITH COCHISE
WAS RATIFIED IN 1872
NEAR DRAGOON SPRINGS ON OCTOBER 12, 1872 GENERAL O. O. HOWARD AND COCHISE CHIEF OF THE CHIRICAHUA APACHE INDIANS RATIFIED A PEACE TREATY ENDING YEARS OF WARFARE BETWEEN THAT TRIBE AND THE WHITE SETTLERS. COCHISE’S STRONGHOLD WAS HIDDEN DEEP IN THE DRAGOON MOUNTAINS BEYOND.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
A.H.D.
1962
I-10 MP 388 EASTBOUND
THE SAN SIMON
REST AREA
DEDICATED TO THE
ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS OF
PERCY JONES, JR.
1888 -
CHIEF LOCATING ENGINEER WHO BY SHEER GENIUS PERSONALLY LOCATED MORE MILES OF ARIZONA HIGHWAYS THAN ANY OTHER PERSON. HIS COLLEGE TRAINING IN MINING AND GEOLOGY COMBINED WITH INSTINCTS AS A PIONEER DESERT TRAVELER TO GIVE HIM UNCANNY ABILITIES AT PUSHING ROADS ACROSS VIRGIN COUNTRY.
THE SPECTACULAR DRIVE THROUGH SALT RIVER CANYON ON US 60 IS CONSIDERED A HIGH POINT OF THIS “BORN LOCATOR’S” CAREER
HE WORKED FOR THE ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT A YEAR BEFORE ENTERING WORLD WAR I IN 1917, RETURNING IN 1923. HE BECAME CHIEF LOCATING ENGINEER IN 1931 AND SERVED UNTIL 1943. THE DEPARTMENT CALLED HIM BACK IN 1955 FOR THREE MORE YEARS TO “TROUBLE SHOOT” CORRIDORS FOR
(CONT.)
I-10 MP 388 EASTBOUND
(CONT.)
THE NEW BILLION-DOLLAR INTERSTATE SYSTEM.
DEDICATED JULY 4, 1976 BY THE ARIZONA STATE TRANSPORTATION BOARD IN COOPERATION WITH THE ARIZONA SECTION, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.
I-10 MP 388 WESTBOUND
THE SAN SIMON
REST AREA
DEDICATED TO THE
ENGINEERING ACHIEVEMENTS OF
PERCY JONES, JR.
1888 -
CHIEF LOCATING ENGINEER WHO BY SHEER GENIUS PERSONALLY LOCATED MORE MILES OF ARIZONA HIGHWAYS THAN ANY OTHER PERSON. HIS COLLEGE TRAINING IN MINING AND GEOLOGY COMBINED WITH INSTINCTS AS A PIONEER DESERT TRAVELER TO GIVE HIM UNCANNY ABILITIES AT PUSHING ROADS ACROSS VIRGIN COUNTRY.
THE SPECTACULAR DRIVE THROUGH SALT RIVER CANYON ON US 60 IS CONSIDERED A HIGH POINT OF THIS “BORN LOCATOR’S” CAREER
HE WORKED FOR THE ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT A YEAR BEFORE ENTERING WORLD WAR I IN 1917, RETURNING IN 1923. HE BECAME CHIEF LOCATING ENGINEER IN 1931 AND SERVED UNTIL 1943. THE DEPARTMENT CALLED HIM BACK IN 1955 FOR THREE MORE YEARS TO “TROUBLE SHOOT” CORRIDORS FOR
(CONT.)
I-10 MP 388 WESTBOUND
(CONT.)
THE NEW BILLION-DOLLAR INTERSTATE SYSTEM.
DEDICATED JULY 4, 1976 BY THE ARIZONA STATE TRANSPORTATION BOARD IN COOPERATION WITH THE ARIZONA SECTION, AMERICAN SOCIETY OF CIVIL ENGINEERS.
I-17 MP 242
BLACK CANYON HIGHWAY
BLACK CANYON HIGHWAY
CONSTRUCTION BEGAN 1947
SIDNEY P. OSBORNE - GOVERNOR
COMPLETED - 1961
PAUL FANNIN - GOVERNOR
DEDICATED SEPTEMBER 10, 1961 BY
HONORABLE CARL HAYDEN
UNITED STATES SENATOR
“AND THEY WERE ONE”
1-17 MP 284
COPPER CANYON ROUTE
TO THE VERDE VALLEY
IN JANUARY OF 1865 NINE MEN AND ONE HORSE ENTERED THE VERDE VALLEY THROUGH COPPER CANYON TO LAUNCH THE FIRST SUCCESSFUL ANGLO-AMERICAN IRRIGATION PROJECT IN NORTHERN ARIZONA. CATTLE LOST BY INDIAN RAIDS EXCEEDED THE VALUE OF THE FIRST YEARS CROPS BUT THE INTREPID PIONEERS PERSEVERED.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
1961
I-17 MP 285
CAMP VERDE
THE OLDEST SETTLEMENT IN THE VERDE VALLEY. SITE OF HISTORIC FORT LINCOLN, ESTABLISHED IN 1864 TO PROTECT THE SETTLERS FROM MARAUDING APACHES.
FOUR OF THE FORT BUILDINGS MAY STILL BE SEEN, ONE OF WHICH HOUSES THE FORT VERDE MUSEUM.
B-19 MP 004
BLUE STAR
MEMORIAL HIGHWAY
A TRIBUTE TO THE ARMED FORCES
THAT HAVE DEFENDED THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SPONSORED BY
ARIZONA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS
IN COOPERATION WITH
ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
B-19 MP 005
PETE KITCHEN
PIONEER, RANCHER, STOCKMAN,
MINER & INDIAN FIGHTER BORN IN
TENNESSEE,1823, CAME TO ARIZONA
IN 1854 & ESTABLISHED 1000 ACRE
PORTRERO RANCH; SUPPLIER OF
MEAT & OTHER PRODUCTS TO ARMY
CAMPS, TUCSON & NEARBY SETTLE-
MENTS, DIED AT TUCSON AUGUST 5,
1895.
B-19 MP 059
MISION
SAN XAVIER DELBAC
ORIGINAL MISSION FOUNDED BY
JESUITS APRIL 1700. SACKED DURING
PIMA REVOLT 1751. RESTORED 1752.
TAKEN OVER BY FRANCISCANS ‘68.
RAIDED SAME YEAR BY APACHES.
WORK ON PRESENT STRUCTURE 1785-1798.
ABANDONED IN MEXICAN REVOLT
FROM SPAIN 1822. PRIESTS RETURN
AFTER GADSDEN PURCHASE 1859.
WITHSTOOD EARTHQUAKE 1887
RESTORED 1906.
AMERICA’S MOST BEAUTIFUL
MISSION IN ACTIVE USE TO-DAY.
B-19 MP 062
FIRST MUNICIPAL AIRPORT
IN THE UNITED STATES
THIS GROUND
WAS THE LOCATION
OF THE
FIRST MUNICIPAL AIRPORT
IN THE
UNITED STATES
THE FIRST PLANE LANDED
NOVEMBER 20, 1919
SWEDE MYERHOFER -- PILOT
TUCSON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
AVIATION COMMITTEE
R. E. FISHBURN, CHAIRMAN
CITY OF TUCSON
ESTABLISHED AND CONSTRUCTED
THE AIRPORT.
I-19 MP 009
GHOST TOWN OF
CALABASAS
IN THE 18TH CENTURY THIS WAS A
PAPAGO INDIAN VILLAGE VISITED BY
JESUIT MISSIONARIES. IT BECAME IN
TURN THE SITE OF SPANISH MINES,
A HUGE MEXICAN CATTLE RANCH, AND
A MILITARY OUTPOST. DURING THE
CIVIL WAR IT WAS THE LOCATION OF
FORT MASON AND IN THE 1880’S IT
WAS A WILD RAILROAD CONSTRUCTION
CAMP.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
1962
I-19 MP 022
TUBAC
FLAG OF SPAIN PLANTED 1737
GARRISONED 1752 TO PROTECT
CHURCH MISSIONS. LATER LOST
TO MEXICO. SETTLED BY THE
MORMONS IN 1852. AMERICAN
MINING CENTER BY 1856. WAS SELF
GOVERNED POST ON LAWLESS
FRONTIER. ISSUED OWN PAPER
MONEY BOLETOS REDEEMABLE
IN SILVER. FIRST AMERICAN
NEWSPAPER IN REGION. APACHE
RAIDS CAUSED ABANDONMENT
1861-64 OR THERE ABOUTS.
B-40 MP 163
BILL WILLIAMS MOUNTAIN
ELEVATION 9,264 FT.
THIS MOUNTAIN WAS NAMED FOR A COLORFUL MOUNTAINEER, GUIDE AND TRAPPER WHO IS GENERALLY CREDITED WITH BEING THE FIRST AMERICAN TO EXPLORE NORTHERN ARIZONA - 1830 OR EARLIER. WILLIAMS LIVED AT DIFFERENT TIMES AMONG THE OSAGE AND UTE INDIANS, AND EARLIER HAD BEEN A BAPTIST CIRCUIT RIDER IN MISSOURI. HE WAS KILLED BY INDIANS IN 1849.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
1962
I-40 MP 253 EASTBOUND
SUNSET CROSSING
THIS CROSSING, FIRST NOTED EARLY IN THE 50’S IN JOURNALS AND MAPS OF EXPLORERS ALONG THE 35TH PARALLEL, IS THE ONLY CONVERGENCE OF MAJOR TRAVEL ROUTES ON THE LITTLE COLORADO RIVER. IT LIES ON THE TRAIL USED BY MORMON IMMIGRANTS JOURNEYING FROM UTAH TO ARIZONA SETTLEMENTS DURING THE 1870’S. A ROCK LEDGE SPANNING THE STREAM FROM BANK TO BANK AT THIS POINT MADE CROSSING BY WAGON POSSIBLE. IT IS SAID TO HAVE BEEN NAMED AFTER SUNSET PASS LOCATED TO THE SOUTHWEST.
NAVAJO COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY
AND
ARIZONA HISTORICAL SOCIETY
I-40 MP 266 EASTBOUND
SUNSET CROSSING
ON THE
LITTLE COLORADO RIVER
THIS WAS THE CROSSING FOR BEALE’S CAMEL EXPEDITION IN 1858 ON THE MILITARY ROAD FROM FORT DEFIANCE TO FORT MOHAVE. A ROCKY LEDGE THROUGH A RIVER BED FILLED WITH DANGEROUS QUICKSAND. IT WAS USED BY MILITARY TRAVELERS AND THE MORMON IMMIGRANTS WHO ARRIVED IN NORTHERN ARIZONA IN 1876. MAIN CROSSING OF THE RIVER UNTIL THE RAILROAD WAS BUILT IN 1882.
I-40 MP 358 WESTBOUND
IN MEMORY OF
MAX ORTEGA
1905 - 1979
LIFE-LONG RESIDENT OF THIS
AREA, SON OF A PIONEER ARIZONA
FAMILY, AND EARLY TRADESMAN
WHO WAS FRIEND AND NEIGHBOR
TO ALL.
ARIZONA STATE
TRANSPORTATION BOARD
1984
I-40 MP 358 WESTBOUND
DOMINGUEZ - ESCALANTE
EXPEDITION
ONE DAYS RIDE TO ZUNI
IN NOVEMBER OF 1776 A PARTY OF SPANISH EXPLORERS AND INDIAN GUIDES PASSED THROUGH THIS AREA ON THEIR WAY TO THE ZUNI MISSION IN WHAT IS NOW NEW MEXICO. FRANCISCAN FATHERS, FRANCISCO ATANASIO DOMINGUEZ AND SILVESTRE VELEZ DE ESCALANTE, HAD EMBARKED FROM SANTA FE WITH HOPES OF DISCOVERING AN OVERLAND ROUTE TO THE PRESIDIO AT MONTEREY. HOWEVER COLD WEATHER AND RUGGED TERRAIN FORCED THEM TO TURN SOUTH AND RETURN TO SANTA FE. WHILE THEY NEVER SUCCEEDED IN FINDING A SHORTER ROUTE TO CALIFORNIA, THE PRIESTS EXPORED MUCH NEW TERRITORY IN THE PRESENT STATES OF NEW MEXICO, COLORADO, UTAH AND ARIZONA. THEY WERE THE FIRST EUROPEANS TO DISCOVER A USEABLE CROSSING OF THE COLORADO RIVER AFTER WANDERING FOR MILES ALONG THE RIM OF THE SEEMINGLY IMPASSABLE MARBLE CANYON GORGE.
THE EXPLORERS HAD ATTEMPTED BRINGING THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION TO THE HOPIS IN
(CONT.)
I-40 MP 358 WESTBOUND
(CONT.)
ORAIBI, 100 MILES WEST OF HERE. THEIR CONVERSION EFFORTS WERE NOT WELL RECEIVED; BUT THEY WERE SAVED FROM STARVING BY THE HOPIS. THEY CAMPED NEAR THIS LOCATION ON NOVEMBER 16, 1776 IN A SNOWSTORM. THEY HAD BUT ONE MORE DAYS RIDE BEFORE REACHING THE FAMILIAR MISSION IN ZUNI, NEW MEXICO.
THIS MARKER WAS ERECTED HERE THROUGH THE COOPERATION OF THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION AND THE ARIZONA BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION-1976.
US 60 MP 018
THE LAST CAMP
OF
HI JOLLY
BORN IN SOMEWHERE IN SYRIA
ABOUT 1828
DIED AT QUARTZSITE
DECEMBER 16, 1902
CAME TO THIS COUNTRY
FEBRUARY 10, 1856
CAMELDRIVER - PACKER
SCOUT - OVER THIRTY
YEARS A FAITHFUL AID
TO THE U.S. GOVERNMENT
ARIZONA
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1935
US 60 MP 019
TYSON WELLS
OLD STAGE STATION
THIS WAS A STAGE STOP BETWEEN
EHRENBERG AND WICKENBURG AND
POINTS EAST. TRAVELERS IN THE 1870’S
AND 80’S MADE THEIR FIRST STOP
HERE ON EASTWARD JOURNEYS FROM
THE COLORADO RIVER. “NO GRASS
BUT GOOD WATER,” AN EARLY DESERT
GUIDE INDICATED. ACCOMMODATIONS
FOR PASSENGERS WERE CRUDE.
US 60 MP 056
SALOME
WHERE SHE DANCED
THIS DESERT TOWN WAS MADE
FAMOUS BY THE HUMOR OF DICK WICK
HALL. HEALTH-SEEKER AND OPERATOR
OF THE LAUGHING GAS STATION. HALL’S
PUBLICATION THE SALOME SUN WAS
FILLED WITH EXAGGERATED TALES OF
THE ADAPTATION OF ANIMAL AND PLANT
LIFE TO THE DESERT ENVIRONMENT. HE
FEATURED HIS FROG THAT WAS SEVEN YEARS OLD AND NEVER LEARNED TO
SWIM.
US 60 MP 106
WICKENBURG
MASSACRE
IN THIS VICINITY, NOV. 5, 1871
WICKENBURG - EHRENBERG
STAGE AMBUSHED BY APACHE
MOHAVE INDIANS.
JOHN LANZ - FRED W. LORING
P. M. HAMEL - - W. G. SALMON
FREDERICK SHOHOLM AND
C. S. ADAMS WERE MURDERED
MOLLIE SHEPPARD DIED OF
WOUNDS.
US 60 MP 107
VULTURE MINE
DISCOVERED IN 1863 BY
HENRY WICKENBURG
AND HIS BURRO
TO SUPPLY THE NEEDS OF THE MINES
AND PROTECTING MILITARY CAMPS
THE SALT RIVER VALLEY IRRIGATED
AGRICULTURAL INDUSTRY WAS DEVELOPED.
THE VULTURE MINE PRODUCED 10 MILLIONS
IN GOLD AND WAS THE GREATEST SINGLE
FACTOR IN THE SETTLEMENT OF
CENTRAL ARIZONA. IT’S DISCOVERER
DIED BY HIS OWN HAND IN 1905
AT THE AGE OF 86.
US 60 MP 109
CRYPT OF HENRY WICKENBURG
HENRY WICKENBURG
BORN DIED
DECEMBER 21, 1820 MAY 14, 1905
US 60 MP 110
HASSAYAMPA
LEGEND
THERE’S A LEGEND CENTURIES OLD
BY THE EARLY SPANIARDS TOLD
OF A SPARKLING STREAM THAT “LIES”
UNDER ARIZONA SKIES
HASSAYAMPA IS ITS NAME
AND THE TITLE TO ITS FAME
IS A WONDROUS QUALITY
KNOWN TODAY FROM SEA TO SEA
THOSE WHO DRINK ITS WATERS BRIGHT
RED MAN, WHITE MAN, BOOR OR KNIGHT
GIRLS OR WOMEN, BOYS OR MEN
NEVER TELL THE TRUTH AGAIN.
ANDREW DOWNING
US 60 MP 166
ORIGINAL
SITE OF PHOENIX
IN THE WINTER OF 1867 - 1868, A PARTY
LED BY JACK SWILLING DUG A CANAL FROM
THE SALT RIVER TO IRRIGATE FIELDS IN
THIS VICINITY. HELLING’S MILL ON THE
BANK OF THE CANAL, PLUS A FEW NEIGH-
BORING STORES BECAME THE CENTER OF
PHOENIX SETTLEMENT. THREE YEARS
LATER, A NEW TOWNSITE WAS SURVEYED
AND ESTABLISHED TO THE WEST.
US 60 MP 168
AT THIS SITE
IN THE SPRING OF 1868
S. (FRENCHY) SAWYER
BUILT THE FIRST FARM DWELLING AND HARVESTED THE FIRST CULTIVATED CROP (BARLEY) IN THE VALLEY. THESE SAME FERTILE ACRES HAD BEEN IRRIGATED CENTURIES BEFORE BY INDIANS WHO ABANDONED THEIR CANALS AND LANDS.
HISTORICAL MARKER PLACED BY
MARICOPA COUNTY FARM BUREAU
1956
US 60 MP 170
DEDICATED
TO THE PIONEER
SPIRIT OF OUR
EARLY SETTLERS
ERECTED 1941
MARICOPA CHAPTER
DAUGHTERS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
UNDER THE REGENCY OF
MRS. J. L. B. ALEXANDER
MRS. CARL J. WALTERS
MRS. E. F. STRICKLER
MRS. ANGIL MARTIN
US 60 MP 170
*USA*
WORK PROGRAM
W.P.A.
HUNT BASS HATCHERY
ERECTED A.D. 1936
SPONSORED BY
ARIZONA STATE
GAME DEPARTMENT
C.P. NO. 65-2-544
US 60 MP 170
CLARK DAM
HUNT
BASS HATCHERY
ARIZONA GAME AND
FISH COMMISSION
W. C. JOYNER - GAME WARDEN
LYNN LOCKHART - CHAIRMAN
D. W. FRANCS - MEMBER
H. A. CLARK - MEMBER
AUGUST 30, 1932
INSIDE PHOENIX ZOO
US 60 MP 171
*USA*
WORK PROGRAM
W.P.A.
BEAUTIFICATION AND IMPROVEMENT
WASHINGTON BOULEVARD
IMPROVED A.D. 1936 - 37
SPONSORED BY
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
O.P. NO. 65 - 02 - 461
US 60 MP 171
GOVERNOR HUNT’S TOMB
BURIAL VAULT OF GEORGE W. P. HUNT,
1881-1934. WAITER, MINER, MERCHANT,
BANKER, LEGISLATOR, AND PRESIDENT OF
ARIZONA’S CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION.
THE STATE’S FIRST GOVERNOR, SERVING
DURING SEVEN TERMS BEGINNING IN
1912. MINISTER TO SIAM 1921-22.
ENTOMBED WITH HIM ARE HIS WIFE, HER
PARENTS, MR. AND MRS. JESSIE W. ELLISON,
AND MRS. HUNT’S SISTER, MISS LENA ELLISON.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1962
US 60 MP 171
HAYDEN’S FERRY
STARTED IN 1872 HAYDEN’S FERRY
CONVEYED RESIDENTS AND TRAVELERS
ACROSS THE SALT RIVER DURING ITS
FLOOD STAGES. NAMED FOR CHARLES
TRUMBULL HAYDEN. PROBATE JUDGE,
MILLER, MERCHANT, FARMER, FREIGHTER
AND CIVIC LEADER, WHO WAS AN EARLY
RESIDENT OF TEMPE AND FATHER OF
U.S. SENATOR CARL HAYDEN.
US 60 MP 171
1949
THIS PLAQUE ERECTED BY
THE TEMPE GARDEN CLUB
IN MEMORY OF
HONOR ANDERSON MOEUR
WIFE OF
GOVERNOR B. B. MOEUR
FOR HER UNTIRING EFFORTS
TOWARD BEAUTIFICATION OF
OUR HIGHWAY AND THE
CREATION OF THIS PARK.
MOEUR PARK - TEMPE
US 60 MP171
STATE OF ARIZONA
TEMPE BRIDGE
COMMENCED A.D. 1910
COMPLETED A.D. 1913
UNDER THE AUTHORITY OF THE
TERRITORIAL BOARD OF CONTROL 1910-1912
RICHARD E. SLOAN, GOVERNOR
GEO. A. MAUK, AUDITOR ROBERT A. CRAIG, SECRETARY
THE STATE BOARD OF CONTROL 1912-1915
GEO. W. P. HUNT, GOVERNOR
J. C. CALLASHAW, AUDITOR
C. T. OSBURN, SECRETARY
THE BOARD OF SUPERVISORS OF
MARICOPA COUNTY 1912-1915
W. A. MOUER, CHAIRMAN
FRANK LUKE LIN B. ORME
UNDER THE DIRECTION OF
J. B. GIRAND, TERRITORIAL ENGINEER 1910-1912
LAMAR COBB, STATE ENGINEER 1912-1915
C. E. HASSE, DESIGNING ENGINEER
J. C. RYAN, CONSTRUCTION ENGINEER
WITH PRISON LABOR
US 60 MP 171
*1930* *1931*
TEMPE BRIDGE
STATE OF ARIZONA
JOHN C. PHILLIPS - GEO. W. P. HUNT
GOVERNORS
THE ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
J. F. MCDONALD J. B. HART
W. P. WAYLAND JACOB BARTH
MONTE MANSFIELD MONTE MANSFIELD
S. R. TRENGOVE S. R. TRENGOVE
LYNCH - CANNON ENGINEERING CO.
CONTRACTORS
US 60 MP 195
ERECTED BY
THE
DONS CLUB
OF PHOENIX
TO
COMMEMORATE
THE
LEGEND OF
THE LOST
DUTCHMAN
MINE
1938
US 60 MP 204
JEFFERSON DAVIS
HIGHWAY NO. 70
ERECTED 1943 BY
UNITED
DAUGHTERS OF THE CONFEDERACY
ARIZONA
US 60 MP 223
PICKET POST MOUNTAIN
A LANDMARK AND LOOKOUT POINT
DURING INDIAN WARS. SITE OF OUTPOST
OF CAMP PINAL WHICH WAS LOCATED AT
HEAD OF STONEMAN GRADE TO THE EAST.
SOLDIERS PROTECTED PINAL CITY AND THE
SILVER KING MINE FROM APACHE RAIDERS.
IT WAS THE HOME OF COL. WILLIAM BOYCE
THOMPSON, MINING MAGNATE AND FOUNDER
OF THE SOUTHWEST ARBORETUM AT
THE FOOT OF THE MOUNTAIN.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
1960
US 60 MP 246
MIAMI - SUPERIOR HIGHWAY
LENGTH 21 MILES
1919 COST 1,000,000
THOMAS CAMPBELL GOVERNOR
THOMAS MADDOCK ENGINEER
ASSISTANT ENGINEERS
JAMES PARKER EARL PARKER HARRY HAGEN
J.M. SHEPHERD H.B. WRIGHT C.C. SMALL
E.A. WOLFE M. BUTLER AL F. HARTER
A.W. VAN FLEET F.G. TWITCHELL
SUPERINTENDENTS OF CONSTRUCTION
RAN BONE FLOYD ALLEN
CONTRACTORS
J.L. HOOOPES S.Y. FAUCETT GILA COUNTY
BUILT WITH COUNTY, STATE AND FEDERAL
FUNDS. FIRST APPROPRIATION
FOURTH ARIZONA LEGISLATURE
BILL BY SENATOR W.D. CLAYPOOL
ERECTED APRIL 29,1922 BY THE MIAMI-SUPERIOR HIGHWAY. OPENING CELEBRATION COMMITTEE, NELSON D. BRAY CHAIRMAN
MADE OF LOCAL COPPER BY GLOBE FOUNDRY AND MACHINE CO.
PINAL GILA
US 60 MP 248
OLD DOMINION MINE
INCLUDED IN THIS HISTORIC COPPER
MINE ARE THE GLOBE LEDGE SILVER
CLAIMS. DISCOVERED IN 1873, THE
FIRST TO YIELD PROFITABLE ORE IN
THE GLOBE-MIAMI DISTRICT. THE OLD
DOMINION INCLUDED MANY OTHER EARLY
CLAIMS. PRODUCTION CEASED IN THE
30’S, DUE TO SUBTERRANEAN FLOODING
AND THE LOWERED PRICE OF COPPER.
US 60 MP 265
LOCATED ALONG THIS ROAD
MC MILLENVILLE
GHOST MINING CAMP
IN 1874 NATIVE SILVER WAS DISCOVERED
IN WHAT BECAME THE FABULOUS STONEWALL
JACKSON LEDGE. THE DISCOVERY BROUGHT
BOOM CONDITIONS THAT LASTED LESS THAN
10 YEARS. AN INDIAN ATTACK ON THE
CAMP WAS REPULSED IN 1882. MINE
PRODUCTION CEASED IN THE MID 1880’S.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
US 60 MP 290
GEOLOGICAL DISPLAY
(THERE IS NO OTHER TEXT.)
US 60 MP 294
SALT RIVER CANYON RECREATION AREA
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
US 60 MP 297
BECKER BUTTE LOOKOUT
______
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
GUSTAV BECKER
SPRINGERVILLE, ARIZONA
1850 - 1940
________
PIONEER MERCHANT, TRAIL BLAZER, ROAD BUILDER
A FATHER OF U. S. HIGHWAY 60
“HIS WAS A LONG LIFE, FOUNDED ON THE GOLDEN RULE”
US 60 MP 297
IN MEMORY OF
JULIUS W. BECKER
1886 - 1959
SON OF GUSTAV BECKER
_____
HIS LIFE WAS DEDICATED TO THE PRINCIPLES OF HIS FATHER. AN UNSELFISH DEVOTION TO THE BETTERMENT OF HIS FELLOW MAN.
THEY MADE THE WORLD A BETTER PLACE IN WHICH TO LIVE
US 60 MP 387
MADONNA OF THE TRAIL
N.S.D.A.R. MEMORIAL
TO THE
PIONEER MOTHERS
OF THE
COVERED WAGON DAYS
SR 64 MP 268
GRAND CANYON AIRLINE TRAGEDY
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
SR 66 MP 052
LT. EDWARD FITZGERALD BEALE
1822 - 1893
PIONEER IN THE PATH OF EMPIRE,
HERO OF THE WAR WITH MEXICO,
LIEUTENANT IN UNITED STATES
NAVY. APPOINTED GENERAL BY THE
GOVERNOR OF CALIFORNIA.
COMMANDED EXPLORATION OF WAGON
ROUTE TO THE COLORADO RIVER,
WITH THE ONLY CAMEL TRAIN IN
AMERICAN HISTORY 1857 - 1858.
SR 66 MP 052
WAGON ROUTE
SURVEYED BY LT. EDWARD F. BEALE 1857 -
1858. FOLLOWED BY RAILROAD SURVEY,
1858 - 1859. ROUTE OF ATLANTIC AND
PACIFIC RAILROAD BUILT ACROSS ARIZONA
1882 - 1883, TRACKS REACHED KINGMAN,
SPRING, 1883. U. S. HIGHWAY 66 CLOSELY
FOLLOWS BEALE’S SURVEY.
SR 66 MP 052
UNITED STATES ARMY
ESTABLISHED CAMP BEALE’S SPRINGS ABOUT ONE MILE NORTH, MARCH 25, 1871, FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE SETTLERS AND TRAVELERS ON NORTHERN ROUTE; SERVED AS HUALAPAI INDIAN AGENCY. MILITARY CAMP ABANDONED APRIL 6, 1874.
SR 66 MP 276
DAUGHTERS OF UTAH PIONEERS
NO. 173
ERECTED MARCH 22,1952
THE OLD FORT
A GROUP OF COLONISTS CALLED BY BRIGHAM YOUNG, UNDER THE LEADERSHIP OF WILLIAM C. ALLEN SETTLED HERE MARCH 24, 1876. THEY ERECTED A FORT OF COTTONWOOD LOGS AND MUD ON THIS SITE. IT WAS FIRST KNOWN AS ALLEN’S CAMP. IN 1878 THE NAME WAS CHANGED TO ST. JOSEPH IN HONOR OF JOSEPH SMITH THE MORMON PROPHET. THE PEOPLE OCCUPIED THE FORT FOR SEVERAL YEARS DURING WHICH TIME THEY LIVED THE UNITED ORDER. IN 1923 THE NAME OF THE TOWN WAS CHANGED TO JOSEPH CITY. IT IS THE OLDEST MORMON COMMUNITY IN ARIZONA.
NAVAJO COUNTY
SR 66 MP 325
AT NAVAJO SPRINGS
DECEMBER 29, 1863
ARIZONA’S TERRITORIAL
OFFICIALS TOOK THE OATH OF OFFICE
DURING A SNOWSTORM GOVERNOR JOHN N. GOODWIN AND OTHER OFFICIALS ARRIVING FROM THE EAST BY WAGON TRAIN TOOK THEIR OATHS OF OFFICE AND RAISED THE U.S. FLAG “TO ESTABLISH A GOVERNMENT WHEREBY THE SECURITY OF LIFE AND PROPERTY WILL BE MAINTAINED THROUGHOUT ITS LIMITS, AND ITS VARIED RESOURCES BE RAPIDLY AND SUCCESSFULLY DEVELOPED.”
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
- 1957 -
SR 69 MP 247
THE WOOLSEY TRAIL
OLD BLACK CANYON ROAD
THE OLD STAGE AND FREIGHTING ROUTE FIRST USED IN 1865 CONNECTED PRESCOTT AND SOUTHERN ARIZONA. IT CAN BE SEEN ON THE OPPOSITE SIDE OF THE CANYON. IT WAS ORIGINALLY CALLED THE WOOLSEY TRAIL AND LATER THE BLACK CANYON ROAD.
SR 69 MP 280
OLD FORT WOOLSEY
SITE OF WOOLSEY RANCH
KNOWN AS OLD FORT WOOLSEY
BECAUSE OF ENGAGEMENTS
IN THIS LOCALITY BETWEEN
INDIANS AND PIONEER SETTLERS.
ALSO KNOWN AS “HALF WAY
HOUSE” BY STAGE COACH
DRIVERS AND TRAVELERS.
NAMED FOR COL. KING WOOLSEY
WHO SERVED IN THE FIRST,
SECOND, SEVENTH, EIGHT AND
NINTH TERRITORIAL COUNCILS.
SR 69 MP283
OLD ORCHARD RANCH
HOME OF
SHARLOT M. HALL
PIONEER ARIZONA POET
THIS HOMESTEAD AND RANCH ESTABLISHED IN 1882 WAS THE INSPIRATION FOR THE TENDEREST, MOST EXPRESSIVE POETRY WRITTEN IN ARIZONA. HERE MISS HALL, TERRITORIAL HISTORIAN, COMPOSED MANY OF THE WORKS INCLUDED IN “CACTUS AND PINE” AND “POEMS OF A RANCH WOMAN”
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
SR 69 MP 293
PRESCOTT
FOUNDED 1864 ON GRANITE CREEK
EARLY SOURCE OF PLACER GOLD. FORMER
TERRITORIAL CAPITAL OF ARIZONA,
NOW A CENTER FOR RANCHING, MINING,
HEALTH, ESPECIALLY ASTHMA RELIEF,
LOCATED HERE ON SITE OF OLD FT. WHIPPLE
IS WHIPPLE VETERANS HOSPITAL. SEAT OF
FIRST GOVERNOR’S MANSION, AND
ARIZONA PIONEER’S HOME. FRONTIER
DAYS, OLDEST RODEO IN WEST, BEGAN HERE.
ERECTED BY PRESCOTT ROTARY CLUB
US 70 MP 273.1
APACHELAND
OLD SAN CARLOS
THE FAMOUS OLD INDIAN AGENCY OF
THE BLOODY APACHE WAR DAYS WAS
COVERED BY THE WATERS OF SAN CARLOS
LAKE UPON COMPLETION OF COOLIDGE DAM
IN 1928. THE OLD INDIAN CEMETERY
WAS COVERED WITH A CEMENT SLAB.
BUILDINGS WERE MOVED SEVERAL MILES
NORTH TO A NEW SAN CARLOS.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
US 70 MP 302
GERONIMO
NAMED FOR THE REBELLIOUS MEDICINE
MAN WHO LED THE CHIRICAHUA APACHES
ON THEIR LAST RAIDS. TO SURRENDER,
AND THEN INTO EXILE IN FLORIDA AND
OKLAHOMA. THEIR DESCENDANTS LIVED
IN EASTERN ARIZONA AGAIN. THIS WAS
ALSO THE SITE OF ORIGINAL CAMP THOMAS,
ESTABLISHED IN 1876 TO KEEP GERONIMO’S
TRIBESMEN ON THEIR FARMLANDS
ALONG THE GILA RIVER.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
1962
US 70 MP 306
FORT THOMAS
FT. THOMAS FRONTIER FORT
BIRTHPLACE OF MELVIN JONES
SON OF CAPTAIN CALVIN JONES U.S. CRV.
LIONS CLUBS INTERNATIONAL
WORLDS LARGEST SERVICE CLUB
FOUNDED IN CHICAGO 1917 BY THE EFFORTS
OF
JAN. 13, 1879 MELVIN JONES JUNE 1, 1961
US 70 MP 306
MELVIN JONES
ERECTED BY THE LIONS CLUBS OF ARIZONA
THIS COMMEMORATION IS THE RESULT
OF YEARS OF EFFORT BY MEMBERS
OF THE SAFFORD LIONS CLUB AND IS A
PLEDGE OF CONTINUED SERVICE TO MANKIND
IN THE TRADITION OF LIONISM AND
MELVIN JONES
DEDICATED JUNE 27, 1965
SCULPTOR DESIGNER
EMIL GALANDI ROGER DAVID
US 70 MP341
THE GILA VALLEY
THE ROUTE OF
CORONADO IN SEARCH OF FABLED SEVEN
CITIES OF CIBOLA
1540
JAMES O. PATTIE AND OTHER FAMOUS
TRAPPERS ALONG THE GILA RIVER
1825-26
GEN. STEPHEN W. KEARNY AND LT. W. H. EMORY
LED BY KIT CARSON TO CALIFORNIA
1846
APACHE INDIAN HUNTING GROUNDS
COLONIZED BY MORMON PIONEERS
1879
US 70 MP 344
SOLOMON
(SOLOMONVILLE)
COUNTY SEAT OF GRAHAM COUNTY 1883 - 1915
NAMED FOR ISADORE ELKAN SOLOMON. A PIONEER SETTLER, WHO IN 1876 BURNED CHARCOAL HERE FOR SUPPLYING FUEL
TO THE LESINSKY BROTHERS COPPER SMELTER NEAR CLIFTON. FIRST TREASURER OF GRAHAM COUNTY. EARLY DAY MERCHANT, POSTMASTER, AND ONE OF THE FOUNDERS
OF THE GILA VALLEY BANK.
US 70 MP 347
IN 1846
GENERAL KEARNEY’S
ARMY OF THE WEST
GUIDED BY KIT CARSON
FOLLOWED THE GILA RIVER FROM
NEW MEXICO TO THE OCCUPATION
OF CALIFORNIA IN THE MEXICAN
WAR. THUS OPENING THE
SOUTHERN SNOW FREE ROUTE TO
THE PACIFIC COAST.
US 70 MP 356
IN MEMORY OF TWO OF THE
MANY PIONEERS WHO BROUGHT
LAW, ORDER AND SAFETY TO
THE GILA VALLEY
LORENZO AND SETH WRIGHT
WERE KILLED 1 MILE NORTH OF
THIS SPOT BY INDIANS WHO
HAD STOLEN 45 HORSES FROM
EARLY SETTLERS
WHILE PURSUING THE INDIANS, THEY
WERE AMBUSHED DEC. 1, 1885
DEDICATED BY
THE MT. GRAHAM AND ST. JOSEPH STAKES
OF THE L.D.S. CHURCH
SEPT. 24, 1933
US 70 MP 364
IN MEMORY OF
HORATIO HARRIS MERRILL
BORN JANUARY 3,1837
AND HIS DAUGHTER
ELIZA ANN MERRILL
BORN JULY 27, 1881
WHO WHILE TRAVELING BY TEAM AND
WAGON FROM PIMA ARIZONA TO CLIFTON
ARIZONA WERE AMBUSHED AND KILLED BY
INDIANS WITH RIFLES, DECEMBER 3, 1895,
SHORTLY AFTER SUNDOWN.
ERECTED BY THE
MERRILL FAMILY ORGANIZATION
IN COOPERATION WITH
THE ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
ERECTED 1961
SR 73 MP 333
KINISHBA RUINS
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
SR 75 MP 392
APACHE GROVE
THIS AREA SERVED AS A RESTING PLACE
FOR APACHE WAR PARTIES DURING THE
RAIDS OF THE 1880’S. NEAR HERE FELIX B.
KNOX, A CATTLEMAN AND GAMBLER,
STAYED BEHIND TO FACE INDIANS WHILE
HIS WIFE, CHILDREN AND HIRED MAN
ESCAPED IN A BUCKBOARD. OUT OF RE-
SPECT FOR HIS VALOR, THEY DID NOT
MUTILATE HIS BODY.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
SR 77 MP 080
CANADA DEL ORO
FOR EARLY TRAVELERS THE ROAD THROUGH
THIS CANYON WAS ONE OF THE MOST DAN-
GEROUS IN ARIZONA. INDIANS ATTACKED
LONE RIDERS AND WAGON TRAINS ALONG
THIS ROUTE FROM TUCSON TO OLD CAMP
GRANT ON THE SAN PEDRO RIVER. DESPITE
THE CANYON’S NAME, VERY LITTLE GOLD
WAS EVER FOUND HERE.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
SR 77 MP 161
EL CAPITAN PASS
THIS PASS WAS USED BY KEARNY’S
ARMY OF THE WEST IN A MARCH TO
CALIFORNIA IN 1846, GUIDED BY
KIT CARSON. IT WAS DESCRIBED IN
A JOURNAL OF THE TRIP AS “CARSON’S
OLD TRAIL.” THE PASS LED AROUND
THE IMPASSABLE CANYON ON THE
GILA RIVER WHERE COOLIDGE DAM
HAS NOW BEEN CONSTRUCTED.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
SR 79 MP 115
JAN. 8, 1880 - OCT. 12, 1940
IN MEMORY OF
TOM MIX
WHOSE SPIRIT LEFT HIS BODY ON THIS SPOT AND WHOSE CHARACTERIZATION AND PORTRAYALS IN LIFE SERVED TO BETTER FIX MEMORIES OF THE OLD WEST IN THE MINDS OF LIVING MEN.
SR 79 MP 136
POSTON’S BUTTE
FINAL RESTING PLACE OF ‘FATHER OF ARIZONA’
CHARLES D. POSTON, BORN KENTUCKY
1825. ARIZONA’S FIRST DELEGATE TO
CONGRESS, IS BURIED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH HIS WISHES. IT WAS TO HAVE BEEN THE
SITE FOR POSTON’S TEMPLE TO THE SUN,
BUT THAT EFFORT FAILED AND HE DIED
IN POVERTY IN PHOENIX IN 1902. NOT UN-
TIL YEARS LATER WERE HIS REMAINS
BROUGHT TO THE PLACE CALLED PAR-
SEE HILL, BUT KNOWN TO LOCAL RESI-
DENTS AS POSTON’S BUTTE.
SR 80 MP 301
MORMON
LDS CHURCH
BATTALION
CAMP DEC 18, 1846
CAPT. P. C. MERRILL
RETURNED TO
SAN PEDRO 1877
ERECTED 1960
BY TROOP 21
SR 80 MP 314
IN MEMORY OF
UNIDENTIFIED
VETERANS
PIONEERS
SETTLERS
ROY FOURR POST NO 24
AMERICAN LEGEND
1937
SR 80 MP 316
WELCOME TO BOOTHILL GRAVEYARD
1878
BURIED HERE ARE THE REMAINS OF
TOM MC LOWERY KILLED IN EARP-
FRANK MC LOWERY CLANTON BATTLE
BILLIE CLANTON OCT. 26, 1881
DAN DOWD RED SAMPLE HANGED LEGALLY BY
BILL DELANEY J. E. WARD, SHERIFF
AND DAN KELLY BISBEE
FOR MASSACRE,
MAR. 8, 1884
JOHN HEATH LYNCHED BY BISBEE MOB
FEB. 22, 1884
M. R. PEEL MURDERED IN CHARLESTON
MAR. 8, 1882
BILLY GROUNDS, “DUTCH” ARNIE, INDIAN BILL,
PAT LYNCH, BILLY KIPSMAN, BLACK JACK, BRADY BROTHERS, MIKE NOONAN
CHINA MARY JOHN HICKS
SR 80 MP 317
TOMBSTONE COURTHOUSE
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
SR 80 MP 319
TOMBSTONE HISTORIC DISTRICT
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
SR 80 MP 341
DISCOVERY OF ORE
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
SR 80 MP 343
THIS OPEN PIT MINE NAMED
THE LAVENDER PIT
IN HONOR OF
HARRISON M. LAVENDER
1890 - 1952
SR 80 MP 356
MORMON
LDS CHURCH
BATTALION
SMITH GRAVE
TWO MILE SOUTH
BURIED
DEC 7, 1848
ERECTED 1960
BY TROOP 34
SR 80 MP 389
SAN BERNARDINO
LAND GRANT
THIS MEXICAN LAND GRANT DATING
FROM 1822 STRETCHED ON BOTH SIDES
OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY.
STOPPING PLACE FOR THE MORMON
BATTALION IN 1846 AND FOR THOUSANDS
OF GOLD-SEEKERS IN FOLLOWING YEARS.
HOME RANCH OF JOHN SLAUGHTER,
ARIZONA SHERIFF FROM 1884 TO 1922.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
SR 80 MP 406
GERONIMO’S SURRENDER
“NEAR HERE, GERONIMO, LAST APACHE CHIEF-TAIN, AND NACHITE WITH THEIR FOLLOWERS, SURRENDERED, ON SEPTEMBER 6, 1886, TO GENERAL NELSON A. MILES, U. S. ARMY. LIEUTENANT CHAS. B. GATEWOOD WITH KIETA AND MARTINE, APACHE SCOUTS, RISKED THEIR LIVES TO ENTER THE CAMP OF THE HOSTILES TO PRESENT TERMS OF SURRENDER OFFERED TO THEM BY GENERAL MILES.
AFTER TWO DAYS, GATEWOOD RECEIVED THE CONSENT OF GERONIMO AND NACHITE TO SUR-RENDER.
THE SURRENDER OF GERONIMO IN SKELETON CANYON, ON THAT HISTORIC DAY, FOREVER ENDED INDIAN WARFARE IN THE UNITED STATES.”
ERECTED A.D. 1934
CITY OF DOUGLAS
WITH FEDERAL C.W.A. FUNDS
SR 82 MP 016
JOHNNY WARD RANCH
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
SR 82 MP 019
MOWRY MINE
ORIGINALLY WORKED BY MEXI-
CANS RE-LOCATED BY AMERICANS
1858 AFTER GADSDEN PURCHASE
NAMED PATAGONIA MINE-PURCHAS-
ED FOR $25,000 1860 BY LIEUT.
SYLVESTER MOWRY WEST POINT
GRADUATE--RICH IN SILVER,LEAD-
DEFENSE AGAINST BANDITS AND
APACHES COSTLY-MOWRY ACCUSED
OF CONFEDERATE SYMPATHIES-
ARRESTED IMPRISONED IN FORT
YUMA--MINE TAKEN BY U.S. GOVT.-
MOWRY DIED IN LONDON 10-15-71.
SR 82 MP 040
MEXICAN LAND GRANT
SAN IGNACIA
DEL BABOCOMARI
FOR $380 ON DECEMBER 25, 1832, IGNACIO ELIAS AND HIS SISTER EULALIA PURCHASED 123,068 ACRES OF RANGELAND STRETCHING ALMOST TO THE SAN PEDRO RIVER ON THE EAST AND TO THE CANELO HILLS AND SONOITA CREEK ON THE WEST. ONLY 34,707 ACRES WAS ALLOWED BY THE U.S. COURT OF PRIVATE LAND CLAIMS--THE LARGEST LAND GRANT APPROVED IN ARIZONA.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
SR 82 MP 294
CAMP CRITTENDEN
ESTABLISHED AUGUST 10, 1867. NAMED CAMP CRITTENDEN BY GENERAL ORDERS NO. 57 DEPARTMENT OF CALIFORNIA, SEPTEMBER 30, 1867, IN HONOR OF THOMAS A. CRITTENDEN, COL. 32ND U. S. INFANTRY MAJOR GENERAL U.S. VOLUNTEERS. CAMP ABANDONED JUNE 1, 1873. ESTABLISHED TO PROTECT SETTLE-
MENTS OF TABOCOMARI, SONOITA, AND SANTA CRUZ VALLEYS AGAINST INDIANS. LEADING A DETACHMENT OF TROOPS FROM THIS POST, MAY 5, 1871, LIEUT. CUSHING WAS KILLED BY ONE OF COCHISE’S BAND.
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1968
SR 83 MP 058
VAIL SONOITA HIGHWAY
LOCATED AND CONSTRUCTED IN 1918 BY LAMAR COBB,
FIRST STATE ENGINEER OF ARIZONA
MEMBER OF THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION
BORN 1870 DIED 1926
ATHENS, GEORGIA PHOENIX, ARIZONA
ERECTED TO HIS MEMORY
IN 1927 BY THE
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
GEORGE P. HUNT - GOVERNOR
SR 84 MP 181
BARONY OF ARIZONA
HOME OF THE
“BARON OF ARIZONA”
JAMES ADDISON PERALTA REAVIS WAS
BRAZEN FORGER WHO CLAIMED OVER 12 MILLION ACRES OF CENTRAL ARIZONA
AND WESTERN NEW MEXICO AS AN OLD
SPANISH LAND GRANT. HE AND HIS
FAMILY LIVED HERE IN ROYAL STYLE
UNTIL HIS FRAUD WAS EXPOSED. FROM
THE BARONY HE WENT TO FEDERAL
PRISON IN 1895.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
SR 85 MP 123
MORMON BATTALION TRAIL
PLACED HERE BY BISHOP HUGH DANA AND SONS IN HONOR OF THE MORMON BATTALION, WHICH PASSED HERE DECEMBER 27, 1846, ON THEIR WAY TO CALIFORNIA, IN THE SERVICE OF THE UNITED STATES ARMY IN THE WAR WITH MEXICO.
HAROLD KENNETH
DWIGHT GAIL
SR 85 MP 145
GADSDEN PURCHASE
UNTIL DECEMBER 30, 1853, THE GILA RIVER (1 MILE NORTH) FORMED THE INTERNATIONAL BOUNDARY BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND MEXICO. THROUGH THE GADSDEN PURCHASE, ALL TERRITORY NORTH OF THE PRESENT BOUNDARY BECAME A PART OF THE UNITED STATES.
CONSIDERATION - $10,000,000
NEW ALIGNMENT - BUCKEYE - GILA BEND
U.S. HIGHWAY 80
DEDICATED MAY 20, 1956
ERNEST W. MCFARLAND, GOVERNOR
STATE OF ARIZONA
SR 85 MP 192
U. S. A.
WORK PROGRAM
W. P. A.
ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY
BUCKEYE ROAD
ERECTED A.D. 1936-SPONSORED BY
ARIZONA STATE
HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
OP. NO. 65-2-444
SR 85 MP 193
ARIZONA STATE
CAPITOL BUILDING
COMPLETED IN 1900 AT A COST OF APPROXIMATELY $136,000. DESIGNED BY JAMES RILEY GORDON OF SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS, IT SERVED AS THE FIRST ARIZONA OWNED SEAT OF GOVERNMENT DURING THE LATE TERRITORIAL DAYS AND ITS TRANSITION TO STATEHOOD IN 1912. THE ORIGINAL STRUCTURE IS 184 FT. LONG AND 84 FT. DEEP. THE EXTERIOR IS CONSTRUCTED ENTIRELY OF ARIZONA PRODUCTS - GREY GRANITE FROM THE SALT RIVER MOUNTAINS, TUFA FROM YAVAPAI COUNTY AND THE FOUNDATION IS MALAPIA ROCK FROM CAMELBACK MOUNTAIN.
THIS PLAQUE IS RESPECTFULLY
DEDICATED TO THE CITIZENS OF
ARIZONA THIS 19TH DAY OF APRIL 1969
BY
WOODMEN OF THE WORLD
JURISDICTION OF ARIZONA
SR 85 MP 195
CARNEGIE PUBLIC LIBRARY/PARK
REHABILITATION OF THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY
1986
STATE OF ARIZONA
DEPARTMENT OF LIBRARY, ARCHIVES AND PUBLIC RECORDS
BOARD MEMBERS
FRANK KELLY, CHAIRMAN
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
STAN TURLEY
PRESIDENT OF THE SENATE
JOHN HAYS
STATE SENATOR
POLLY ROSENBAUM
STATE REPRESENTATIVE
SHARON TURGEON
DIRECTOR
THIS BUILDING, DESIGNED BY W. R. NORTON (1853-1938) OF PHOENIX WAS CONSTRUCTED IN 1907-1908 AND WAS PLACED ON THE NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES IN 1974.
GERALD A. DOYLE, F.A.I.A.
ARCHITECT FOR THE REHABILITATION
SR 86 MP 094
QUIJOTOA
THIS IS A PAPAGO WORD MEANING
MOUNTAIN SHAPED LIKE A CARRYING
BASKET. DISCOVERY OF A POCKET OF
GOLD AND SILVER ORE LED TO A FAB-
ULOUS BOOM DEVELOPMENT HERE IN
1883. THE DESERT HAS RECLAIMED THE
ORIGINAL SITE AND IT’S SUBURBS OF
LOGAN CITY, NEW VIRGINIA, BROOKLYN
AND ALLEN CITY. THE MINE WAS A COM-
PLETE FAILURE - A TINY POCKET OF
RICHES ON THE MOUNTAIN.
SR 87 MP 188
A MEMORIAL TO
JAMES G. HART
1908
1960
ONE OF ARIZONA’S TRAIL BLAZERS
THIS HIGHWAY IS IN PART,
HIS INSPIRATION AND MONUMENT.
MEMBER MARICOPA COUNTY
BOARD OF SUPERVISORS
1953 - 1960
“_______ TO _______”
SR 87 MP 190
GRAVE OF
DR. CARLOS MONTEZUMA
(WASSAJA)
1865 - 1923
GREATEST OF THE EDUCATED APACHES.
THIS MOHAVE-APACHE INDIAN WAS TAKEN
CAPTIVE AT THE AGE OF SIX BY PIMA
INDIANS. HE WAS SOLD TO A WHITE MAN
WHO EDUCATED HIM AS A PHYSICIAN. DR.
MONTEZUMA HAD A SPLENDID PRACTICE IN
CHICAGO AND BECAME A CHAMPION OF
INDIAN RIGHTS. BUT HE DIED OF TUBER-
CULOSIS IN A BRUSH HUT NEAR HERE
REFUSING ALL MEDICAL CARE.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1962
SR 87 MP 190
CAMP RENO
FROM 1866 TO 1868 THIS OUTPOST
OF FT. McDOWELL SERVED AS A
DEPARTURE POINT FOR MILITARY
EXPEDITIONS AGAINST THE TONTO
AND PINAL APACHE INDIANS.
HISTORICAL MARKER ERECTED BY
JOHN H. PAGE LAND CO.
FRED ELDEAN - BOB CARLOCK
1962
SR 87 MP 191
FORT McDOWELL
THIS IMPORTANT MILITARY POST PROTECTED CENTRAL ARIZONA SETTLEMENTS FROM THE TONTO APACHES DURING THE INDIAN WARS, 1865 TO 1886. ITS FUNCTION AS A MILITARY POST ENDED IN 1890 AND IT BECAME A RESERVATION IN 1891 AS HOME OF THE MOHAVE - APACHE AND YAVAPAI - APACHES. IT WAS THE HOME AND BURIAL PLACE OF DR. CARLOS MONTEZUMA, A MOHAVE - APACHE INDIAN. SCOUTING PARTIES FROM FORT McDOWELL REGULARLY PATROLLED THE TONTO BASIN AREA BEYOND FOUR PEAKS.
ARIZONA LANDMARKS COMMITTEE
SR 87 MP 212
IN MEMORY
GILBERT A. DUTHIE
10-12-30 TO 9-6-70
HIGHWAY PATROLMAN
DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY
LOST HIS LIFE AS THIS SITE
WHILE SERVING THE PEOPLE
OF THE STATE OF ARIZONA.
SR 87 MP 235
OFFICER
“GIB” DUTHIE
OFFICER GILBERT “GIB” DUTHIE WAS ADMIRED BY HIS FELLOW OFFICERS FOR THE WAY HE ALWAYS HAD SOMETHING NICE TO SAY AND FOR HIS GIFT OF MAKING EVERYONE -- EVEN THE PEOPLE HE STOPPED -- FEEL BETTER BECAUSE THEY KNEW GIB CARED FOR THEIR SAFETY. HE SPENT MOST OF HIS PATROL TIME AND PART OF HIS PERSONAL TIME ASSISTING MOTORISTS, HELPING THEM TO GET BACK ON THE ROAD AND HOME SAFELY. YOU COULD ALWAYS SEE IN HIS SMILE THAT THIS HIGH-
WAY PATROLMAN REALLY CARED. GIB WAS BORN IN MEXICO AND LIVED IN THE DOUGLAS AREA. HE SERVED FOUR YEARS IN THE UNITED STATES NAVY AND CAME HOME TO ARIZONA TO FULFILL HIS DREAM OF BECOMING A HIGHWAY PATROLMAN. HIS ENTIRE TEN-YEAR CAREER WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY WAS SPENT PATROLLING STATE ROUTE 87, THE BEELINE HIGHWAY. HE LOST HIS LIFE WHILE ON DUTY DURING THE FLOODS OF 1970 DOING WHAT HE ALWAYS DID -- HELPING TO SAVE OTHERS.
SR 87 MP 235
OFFICER
BOB MARTIN
BOB MARTIN LIVED IN THE EARLY 50s NEAR THE SAGUARO LAKE MARINA, AND JOINED THE ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC SAFETY TO BECOME A HIGHWAY PATROLMAN IN 1968. IN 1972 HE JOINED THE BEELINE SQUAD, AND IT WAS LIKE COMING HOME AGAIN. HE PATROLLED THE BEELINE HIGHWAY FOR 23 OF HIS NEARLY 28 YEARS WITH DPS. HE WAS A MENTOR TO YOUNGER OFFICERS, A PERFECTIONIST WHO INSISTED THE JOB BE WELL DONE, AND IN SO DOING BECAME AFFECTIONATELY KNOWN AS “MOTHER MARTIN”. BOB WAS A GENTLE GIANT, A MAN OF HONOR AND INTEGRITY, A PLAIN-SPEAKING, NO-NONSENSE OFFICER WITH A BIG HEART.
HE WAS OFFERED SAFER JOBS WITHIN THE DEPARTMENT, BUT HIS HEART WAS ON THE BEELINE HIGHWAY ASSISTING MOTORISTS AND KEEPING THEM SAFER. IN HIS DEATH, IT IS SAID HIS SPIRIT IS THE ETERNAL GUARDIAN OF THE BEELINE HIGHWAY.
OFFICER BOB MARTIN WAS KILLED WHILE ON DUTY IN AUGUST OF 1995.
SR 87 MP 291
NEAR HERE, JULY 17, 1882
THE BATLE OF BIG DRY WASH
WAS FOUGHT
IN THIS LAST BIG BATTLE OF THE APACHE WARS, FOURTEEN TROOPS OF CAVALRY UNDER THE COMMAND OF CAPTAIN A. R. CHAFFEE, ENCIRCLED A GROUP OF RENEGADE COYOTERO APACHES LED BY NA-TI-O-TISH. THIS FOLLOWED A WEEK OF RAIDING AND SLAUGHTER BY THE NATIVES WHO HAD ESCAPED FROM THE WHITE MOUNTAIN RESERVATION. MOST OF THE HOSTILES WERE KILLED. LT. THOMAS CRUSE WON THE MEDAL OF HONOR IN THIS BATTLE.
SR 87 360
WINSLOW - TOREVA
HIGHWAY
DEDICATED TO THE HONORABLE CARL HAYDEN, UNITED STATES SENATOR, AND TO THE HONORABLE FRANK R. GOODMAN, FORMER STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER, BOTH BEING GOOD ROADS ADVOCATES, WHO BY THEIR CLOSE APPLICATION AND UNTIRING EFFORTS CONTRIBUTED MUCH TO ESTABLISHMENT AND CONSTRUCTION OF THE WINSLOW - TOREVA HIGHWAY.
1966
SR 88 MP 208
CANYON LAKE
FORMED BY
MORMON FLAT DAM
A WATER STORAGE RESERVOIR BUILT BY THE
SALT RIVER PROJECT--1925
WATER STORAGE CAPACITY: 57,852 ACRE FEET
HYDRO-ELECTRIC GENERATING CAPACITY: 10,000 KILOWATTS
ARIZONA GROWS WHERE WATER FLOWS
“POWER WITH A PURPOSE”
PROJECT ELECTRICITY
MAKES POSSIBLE A DEPENDABLE SUPPLY OF VITAL WATER AT LOW COST....FOR PHOENIX AND THE SALT RIVER VALLEY
IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE TONTO NATIONAL FOREST SALT RIVER PROJECT LAKES PROVIDE RECREATION FOR THOUSANDS OF ARIZONANS
SR 88 MP 229
APACHE LAKE
FORMED BY
HORSE MESA DAM
A WATER STORAGE RESERVOIR BUILT BY THE SALT RIVER PROJECT - 1927
WATER STORAGE CAPACITY:245,038 ACRE FEET
HYDRO-ELECTRIC GENERATING CAPACITY:
33,000 KILOWATTS
ARIZONA GROWS WHERE WATER FLOWS
“POWER WITH A PURPOSE” PROJECT ELECTRICITY MAKES POSSIBLE A DEPENDABLE SUPPLY OF VITAL WATER AT LOW COST FOR PHOENIX AND THE SALT RIVER VALLEY
IN CO-OPERATION WITH THE TONTO NATIONAL FOREST SALT RIVER LAKES PROVIDE RECREATION FOR
OF ARIZONANS
SR 88 MP 241
ROOSEVELT DAM
“ROOSEVELT LAKE
FORMED BY
THEODORE ROOSEVELT DAM
A WATER STORAGE RESERVOIR BUILT FOR THE SALT RIVER PROJECT BY THE BUREAU
OF RECLAMATION 1905 - 1911
WATER STORAGE CAPACITY 1,381,580 ACRE FT.
PROVIDING WATER STORAGE AND POWER
PROJECT ELECTRICITY MAKES POSSIBLE A
DEPENDABLE SUPPLY OF LOW COST WATER
FOR THE
METROPOLITAN PHOENIX AREA
IN COOPERATION WITH THE
TONTO NATIONAL FOREST
SALT RIVER PROJECT LAKES PROVIDE
PUBLIC RECREATION”.
(CONT.)
SR 88 MP 241
ROOSEVELT DAM (CONT.)
B. BRONZE PLAQUE, TOP LEFT -
“THEODORE ROOSEVELT DAM HAS BEEN DESIGNATED A REGISTERED NATIONAL
HISTORIC LANDMARK UNDER THE PROVISIONS OF THE HISTORIC SITES ACT OF AUGUST 21, 1935. THIS SITE POSSESSES EXCEPTIONAL VALUE IN COMMEMORATING AND ILLUSTRATING THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES
U. S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE 1963.”
C. BRONZE PLAQUE, TOP RIGHT
“ON MARCH 28, 1906 AT THE SITE OF THEODORE ROOSEVELT DAM A 900 KILOWATT GENERATOR PRODUCED RECLAMATIONS FIRST HYDROELECTRIC POWER. THE POWER HELPED BUILD THE DAM WHICH NOW HAS A 20,000 KILOWATT GENERATING PLANT. THE SALT RIVER PROJECT....AMERICA’S FIRST MULTI-PURPOSE RECLAMATION DEVELOPMENT....
ESTABLISHED THE PRINCIPLE THAT POWER IS THE PAYING PARTNER OF WATER.
U.S. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION.”
(CONT.)
SR 88 MP 241
ROOSEVELT DAM (CONT.)
D. BRONZE PLAQUE, BOTTOM LEFT -
“NATIONAL HISTORIC CIVIL ENGINEERING LANDMARK.
THEODORE ROOSEVELT DAM
AND
SALT RIVER PROJECT
ASCE 1971.”
SR 89 MP 252
IN MEMORY
HENRY WICKENBURG
THE DISCOVERER OF THE FABULOUSLY RICH VULTURE MINE AND THE MAN FOR WHOM THE TOWN OF WICKENBURG WAS NAMED CAME TO ARIZONA AS A PROSPECTOR IN 1862.
LEGEND TELLS US THAT THIS INTREPID FRONTIERSMAN, A NATIVE OF RUSSIA, FOUND THE VULTURE GOLD IN CHUNKS OF ROCK HE WAS THROWING AT A RECALCITRANT BURRO.
DEVELOPMENT OF THE MINE LED TO BRISK MILLING ACTIVITY ALONG THE HASSAYAMPA RIVER WITH SUBSEQUENT GROWTH OF THE TOWN OF WICKENBURG, WHICH AT THAT TIME BECAME ONE OF THE LARGEST IN THE TERRITORY.
WHILE THE MINE BROUGHT GREAT WEALTH TO MANY, DESTINY WILLED THAT HENRY WICKENBURG WAS NEVER TO REALIZE THE FORTUNE THAT WAS HIS DUE.
IN 1905 DEATH, SELF-INFLICTED, CAME FOR HIM AT SUNSET ON THIS 86TH BIRTHDAY.
HE IS BURIED UNDER A CONCRETE CRYPT ON A NOLL OVERLOOKING HIS HOME AND HIS BELOVED HASSAYAMPA. HIS LIFE STORY IS AN IMPORTANT CHAPTER IN THE HISTORY OF THE WEST.
SR 89 MP 274
ERECTED
IN MEMORY OF
CHARLES CHURCHILL SMALL
MEMBER AMERICAN SOCIETY OF
CIVIL ENGINEERS
1872 1932
FATHER OF ARIZONA HIGHWAYS
SR 89 MP 289
RUINS OF
WALNUT GROVE DAM
THOUGH 135 FT. AT THE BASE
AND STANDING 110 FT. HIGH, THIS
DAM WEAKENED AND COLLAPSED DURING
THE NIGHT OF FEBRUARY 22, 1890.
THE RUSHING WATER TOOK MORE THAN
50 LIVES AND SWEPT AWAY EVERYTHING
IN ITS PATH. DAMAGE EXTENDED AS FAR
DOWNSTREAM AS WICKENBURG. THE DAM
WAS NEVER REBUILT.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1965
SR 89 MP 306
WELCOME TO PRESCOTT
HOWDY, PARTNER! YOU ARE APPROACHING PRESCOTT, THE MILE-HIGH CITY. FORMER TERRITORIAL CAPITAL OF ARIZONA, AND PRESENT SEAT OF YAVAPAI COUNTY. FOUNDED IN 1864 AND NAMED FOR WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT, 1796-1859, ABLE HISTORIAN OF THE SOUTHWEST. PRESCOTT IS SITUATED ON GRANITE CREEK, AN EARLY SOURCE OF PLACER GOLD. IT IS A MINING AND RANCHING CENTER, AND ONE OF THE HEALTHIEST PARTS OF THE STATE, BEING ESPECIALLY NOTED FOR ASTHMA RELIEF.
LOCATED HERE IS WHIPPLE VETERANS HOSPITAL, OF 531 BEDS, BUILT ON THE SITE OF OLD FT. WHIPPLE U.S. ARMY POST, ESTABLISHED 1863. PRESCOTT IS THE HOME OF FRONTIER DAYS OLDEST RODEO IN THE WEST. THE SMOKI PEOPLE, A GROUP OF CITIZENS ORGANIZED TO PRESERVE INDIAN CULTURE AND CEREMONY, DANCE HERE EACH AUGUST. AT PRESCOTT IS THE ARIZONA PIONEER’S HOME, AND GRAND CANYON COLLEGE. BE SURE TO VISIT THE HISTORIC GOVERNOR’S MANSION ON WEST GURLEY ST.
GATEWAY TO THE PRESCOTT NATIONL FOREST YEARLONG RECREATION. STAY AND ENJOY OUR COOL CLIMATE AND WARM HOSPITALITY. THIS SIGN SPONSORED BY THE PRESCOTT ROTARY CLUB.
SR 89 MP 312
THIS PARK IS DEDICATED
TO THE VETERANS OF ALL UNITED STATES WARS
IN RECOGNITION OF THEIR COURAGE AND SACRIFICE
IN THE SERVICE OF OUR COUNTRY
FOR THE PRIMARY USE OF THOSE IN RESIDENCE AT
FORT WHIPPLE AND PRESCOTT
* * * * * * * *
CONSTRUCTED AND ERECTED BY
THE CITY OF PRESCOTT
AND
THE ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
JULY 4, 1954
SR 89 MP 316
WELCOME TO PRESCOTT
HOWDY, PARTNER! YOU ARE APPROACHING PRESCOTT, THE MILE-HIGH CITY. FORMER TERRITORIAL CAPITAL OF ARIZONA, AND PRESENT SEAT OF YAVAPAI COUNTY. FOUNDED IN 1864 AND NAMED FOR WILLIAM HICKLING PRESCOTT, 1796-1859, ABLE HISTORIAN OF THE SOUTHWEST. PRESCOTT IS SITUATED ON GRANITE CREEK, AN EARLY SOURCE OF PLACER GOLD. IT IS A MINING AND RANCHING CENTER, AND ONE OF THE HEALTHIEST PARTS OF THE STATE, BEING ESPECIALLY NOTED FOR ASTHMA RELIEF.
LOCATED HERE IS WHIPPLE VETERANS HOSPITAL, OF 531 BEDS, BUILT ON THE SITE OF OLD FT. WHIPPLE U.S. ARMY POST, ESTABLISHED 1863. PRESCOTT IS THE HOME OF FRONTIER DAYS OLDEST RODEO IN THE WEST. THE SMOKI PEOPLE, A GROUP OF CITIZENS ORGANIZED TO PRESERVE INDIAN CULTURE AND CEREMONY, DANCE HERE EACH AUGUST. AT PRESCOTT IS THE ARIZONA PIONEER’S HOME, AND GRAND CANYON COLLEGE. BE SURE TO VISIT THE HISTORIC GOVERNOR’S MANSION ON WEST GURLEY ST.
GATEWAY TO THE PRESCOTT NATIONL FOREST YEARLONG RECREATION. STAY AND ENJOY OUR COOL CLIMATE AND WARM HOSPITALITY. THIS SIGN SPONSORED BY THE PRESCOTT ROTARY CLUB.
SR 89 MP 333
DEL RIO SPRINGS
SITE OF
ORIGINAL CAMP WHIPPLE
ESTABLISHED DECEMBER 1863
FROM JANUARY 22 TO MAY 18, 1864 THE OFFICES OF THE TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENT OF ARIZONA WERE OPERATED FROM TENTS AND LOG CABINS HERE, BEFORE BEING MOVED TO PRESCOTT THE FIRST PERMANENT CAPITAL.
SR 89 MP 346
HISTORIC 35TH PARALLEL
FOR AGES A ROUTE TRAVELED BY INDIANS MISSIONARIES - TRAPPERS
U.S. ARMY SURVEY IN 1851 BY
CAPTAIN LORENZO SITGREAVES
IN 1854 LT. A.W. WHIPPLE WITH SCIENTISTS & TROOPS MADE A TOPOGRAPHICAL SURVEY FOR A RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC
1857-9 LT. EDWARD E. BEALE WITH HIS CAMEL CORPS EXPLORED FOR A WAGON ROAD
ROUTE OF THE SANTA FE R.R.
HELL’S CANYON BRIDGE COMPLETED IN 1954
BY ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
MARKER PLACED BY ARIZONA SOCIETY
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1956
SR 89 MP 346
A
TRIBUTE TO
THE
ARMED
FORCES
THAT HAVE
DEFENDED
THE UNITED
STATES
OF
AMERICA
US 89 MP 466
CAMERON
(ORIGINALLY TANNER’S CROSSING)
NAMED FOR ONE OF ARIZONA’S FIRST U.S. SENATORS, A PIONEER IN DEVELOPMENT OF TRAILS AND COPPER MINES IN GRAND CANYON. NEAR HERE WAS THE SITE OF TANNER’S CROSSING OF THE LITTLE COLORADO RIVER ON THE MORMON TRAIL FROM UTAH VIA LEE’S FERRY TO SETTLEMENTS IN ARIZONA AND MEXICO.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
US 89 MP 540
GLEN CANYON BRIDGE
THE WORLD’S HIGHEST STEEL ARCH BRIDGE
700 FEET ABOVE THE COLORADO RIVER
2 YEARS TO BUILD - $4,000,000 IN COST
SPAN OF BRIDGE ARCH, 1,028 FEET
LENGTH OF DECK, 1,271 FEET
VERTICAL RISE OF ARCH, 165 FEET
WIDTH OF ROADWAY, 30 FEET
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC - FEBRUARY 20, 1959
US 89 MP 540
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF STEEL CONSTRUCTION, INC.
FOUNDED 1921
AMERICAN INSTITUTE OF STEEL CONSTRUCTION
_________
ANNUAL AWARD OF MERIT
MOST BEAUTIFUL STEEL BRIDGE
CLASS I 1959
US 89 MP 540
GLEN CANYON DAM
COLORADO RIVER STORAGE PROJECT
DEDICATED BY
THE FIRST LADY
MRS. LYNDON B. JOHNSON
SEPTEMBER 22, 1966
_______
UNITED STATED DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
STEWART L. UDALL, SECRETARY
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
FLOYD E. DOMINY, COMMISSIONER
US 89 MP 540
LAKE POWELL
MAYOR JOHN WESLEY POWELL LED SCIENTIFIC EXPLORATION PARTIES DOWN THE GREEN AND COLORADO RIVERS IN 1869 AND IN 1871-72. YEARS LATER POWELL BECAME A LEADER IN GOVERNMENT SCIENCE PROGRAMS, HEADED THE U.S. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY AND THE BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY, AND ADVOCATED ENLIGHTENED LAND AND WATER CONSERVATION POLICIES WHICH RESULTED IN THE PASSAGE OF THE RECLAMATION ACT OF 1902. IN COMMEMORATION OF HIS COURAGE, HIS WISDOM, AND HIS YEARS OF PUBLIC SERVICE, THE RESERVOIR BEHIND GLEN CANYON DAM HAS BEEN NAMED LAKE POWELL.
US 89 MP 549
NATIONAL RECREATION AREA
GLEN CANYON
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
KIEWIT JUDSON PACIFIC MURPHY
1958
US 89 MP 549
GLEN CANYON
BRIDGE
CONSTRUCTED 1957-1959 TO FACILITATE
CONSTRUCTION OF GLEN CANYON DAM AND FOR PUBLIC USE AS A PART OF U.S. HIGHWAY 89.
U.S. BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
U.S. BUREAU OF PUBLIC ROADS
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
DEDICATED FEBRUARY 20, 1959
US 89 MP 549
STATE OF ARIZONA
1959
GOVERNOR
PAUL FANNIN
ARIZONA HIGHWAY COMMISSION
L. F. QUINN CHAIRMAN
F. L. CHRISTENSEN VICE CHAIRMAN
MILTON REAY MEMBER
JOHN J. BUGG MEMBER
WILBUR F. ASBURY MEMBER
JUSTIN HERMAN EXECUTIVE SECRETARY
WM. N. WILLEY STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER
US 89 MP 549
CARL HAYDEN VISITOR CENTER
VISITOR CENTER INFORMATION TOURS OF DAM
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
BUREAU OF RECLAMATION
SR A89 MP 344
JEROME BLAST FURNACE
THIS BLAST FURNACE WAS IN USE IN 1882. THE SMELTER SITE AT THAT TIME WAS WHERE THE BIG OPEN PIT IS AT PRESENT. THIS LITTLE FURNACE USED COKE FOR FUEL. THE NEAREST SOURCE OF SUPPLY WAS WALES, ENGLAND, MORE THAN HALF WAY AROUND THE WORLD IN TRAVEL DISTANCE! SMALL SAILING VESSELS CARRIED THE COKE ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN AND AROUND THE HORN OF SOUTH AMERICA TO SAN FRANCISCO. FROM THERE IS WAS TRANSPORTED BY RAILROAD TO ASHFORK, ARIZONA WHERE IT WAS LOADED INTO MULE DRAWN FREIGHT WAGONS AND HAULED 60 MILES OVER THE MOUNTAINS TO JEROME. THE PRODUCTION OF THIS FURNACE WAS ABOUT 8,000 LBS. OF COPPER PER DAY COMPARED TO LATER SMELTING OPERATIONS WHICH PRODUCED 457,525 LBS. PER DAY (?) 42,290,460 LBS. DURING THE PEAK YEAR - 1929.
SR A89 MP 344
THIS ROCK (PRESCOTT GRANITE) WAS USED IN DRILLING CONTESTS. GREAT SKILL AND STAMINA WERE REQUIRED IN BOTH SINGLE AND DOUBLE JACK DRILLING.
IN THE TEAM DRILLING CONTEST HELD ON SEPT. 16,1911 ONE CONTESTANT, JIM KENNEDY WAS INJURED WHEN HIS PARTNER’S SLEDGE HANDLE BROKE, THE HAMMER STRIKING HIM IN THE HEAD. HIS TEAM WON BUT KENNEDY DIED FROM THE INJURY.
SR A89 MP 377
INDIAN GARDENS
HOMESITE
OF THE FIRST SETTLER
IN OAK CREEK CANYON
IN 1876 OR 1877, JIM THOMPSON BUILT A LOG CABIN HERE AND BEGAN CULTIVATING THE OLD INDIAN GARDENS WHERE THE INDIANS HAD GROWN CORN AND SQUASH LONG BEFORE OAK CREEK WAS KNOWN TO WHITE MEN. THOMPSON REMAINED HERE AT HIS INDIAN GARDENS GUEST RANCH UNTIL HIS DEATH IN 1917.
US A89 MP 537
NAVAJO NATION
A SIX-YOKE TEAM
OF OXEN CLIMB THE
HISTORIC DUGWAY
TRAIL UP FROM LEE’S FERRY
US A89 MP 537
1927 STATE OF ARIZONA 1928
NAVAJO BRIDGE
ARCH 616 FEET TOTAL LENGTH 834 FEET HEIGHT 467 FEET
ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY COMMISSION
GEO. W. P. HUNT, GOVERNOR
I.P. McBRIDE, CHAIRMAN - H. THOMPSON, VICE CHAIRMAN - F.G. STEGER, COMMISSIONER - J.F. McDONALD, COMMISSIONER - FLOYD WILLIAMS, COMMISSIONER - M.G. HANKINS, SECRETARY
ENGINEERING ORGANIZATION
W.G. LEFEBVRE, STATE HIGHWAY ENGINEER - W.W. LANE, CHIEF ENGINEER -
R.A. HOFFMAN,BRIDGE ENGR.,
L.G. LASHMET, DESIGNING ENGINEER -
R.C. PERKINS AND W.R. HUTCHINS, DISTRICT ENGINEERS - R.G. BOND, RESIDENT ENGINEER - W.K. CLAYPOOL, INSPECTOR
IN COOPERATION WITH
THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
BUREAU OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
HUBERT WORK, SECRETARY
C.H.BURKE, COMMISSIONER OF INDIAN AFFAIRS
FABRICATED AND
ERECTED BY THE KANSAS CITY
STRUCTURAL STEEL CO.
US A89 MP 537
NAVAJO BRIDGE
HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE
NATIONAL REGISTER OF
HISTORIC PLACES
BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
OF THE INTERIOR.
AUGUST 13, 1981
US A89 MP 538
NAVAJO BRIDGE
HAS BEEN PLACED ON THE
NATIONAL REGISTER OF
HISTORIC PLACES
BY THE UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT
OF THE INTERIOR.
AUGUST 13, 1981
US A89 MP 538
IN MEMORY OF
THE ADVERTURESOME SPIRIT OF
GILBERT H. HANSEN
___________
WHO BECAME PART OF
THE RIVER HE LOVED
___________
NEAR POWELLS MUSIC TEMPLE
IN GLEN CANYON
___________
MAY 5, 1912 - MAY 17, 1957
US A89 MP 538
THEY RUN THE RIVERS OF ETERNITY
IN MEMORY OF NORMAN D. NEVILLS
APRIL 9, 1908 - SEPTEMBER 19, 1949
AND DORIS - HIS WIFE
MARCH 11, 1914 - SEPTEMBER 19, 1949
WHO SOUGHT & RAN & MASTERED THE
WILD & SECRET WATERS
SAN JUAN RIVER - GREEN RIVER - COLORADO RIVER - GRAND CANYON - SALMON RIVER - SNAKE RIVER
BY THE RIVERS THEY LOVED SO WELL, IN THE DESERT THAT WAS THEIR HOME, THIS RECORD IS PLACED BY THE CANYONEERS.
US A89 MP 538
IN LOVING MEMORY
LOVIE “DEE” REIFF
WHO WITH ALL HER HEART DEARLY
LOVED THIS CANYON COUNTRY
APRIL 10, 1913 - FEBRUARY 15, 1958
HOYEH DE ATIN
US A89 MP 538
DAUGHTER OF UTAH PIONEERS
NO. 350
ERECTED 1968 - LEE’S FERRY
JOHN D. LEE SETTLED HERE IN DECEMBER, 1871 AND ESTABLISHED FERRY SERVICE THIRTEEN MONTHS LATER. AFTER HER HUSBAND’S DEATH, WARREN M. JOHNSON RAN THE OAR DRIVER FERRY FOR EMMA LEE, 1875 TO 1879, WHEN THE CHURCH OF THE LATTER-DAY SAINTS PURCHASED HER INTEREST. JOHNSON SERVED UNTIL 1895. HE WAS FOLLOWED BY JAMES S. ERNETT WHO SOLD TO THE GRAND CANYON CATTLE COMPANY IN 1909. COCONINO COUNTY OPERATED THE FERRY FROM 1910 TO 1928.
KANE COUNTY
US A89 MP 538
GLEN CANYON NATIONAL RECREATION AREA
LEE’S FERRY STORE AND GAS
UNITED STATED DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR
NATIONAL PARK SERVICE
US A89 MP 538
LEE’S FERRY
NORTHERN GATEWAY TO ARIZONA FOR 54 YEARS - FROM 1873 TO 1927 - IS LOCATED SIX MILES UPSTREAM FROM THIS BRIDGE.
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THIS MONUMENT ERECTED TO THE FOUNDER
JOHN DOYLE LEE
WHO, WITH SUPERHUMAN EFFORT AND IN THE FACE OF ALMOST INSURMOUNTABLE OBSTACLES, MAINTAINED THIS FERRY WHICH MADE POSSIBLE THE COLONIZATION OF ARIZONA
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FRONTIERSMAN, TRAIL BLAZER, BUILDER, A MAN OF GREAT FAITH, SOUND JUDGMENT AND INDOMITABLE COURAGE.
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AUTHORITY FOR ERECTION OF THIS MONUMENT GRANTED BY THE STATE OF ARIZONA
1961
US A89 MP 538 LEE FERRY
FROM 1872 TO 1929
PRINCIPAL ROUTE OF TRAVEL
ACROSS THE COLORADO RIVER
TO UTAH SETTLEMENTS
FIRST CROSSING MADE AT THE MOUTH OF PARIA CREEK IN 1864 BY JACOB HAMBLIN. REGULAR FERRY ESTABLISHED BY JOHN DOYLE LEE IN 1872. PURCHASED BY LATTER DAY SAINTS CHURCH AFTER HIS DEATH IN 1877. MAINTAINED CONTINUOUSLY BY PRIVATE AND PUBLIC OPERATORS UNTIL 1929 WHEN NAVAJO BRIDGE WAS COMPLETED.
US A89 MP 557 DOMINGUEZ AND ESCALANTE EXPEDITION
TREACHEROUS DESCENT
FATIGUED BY A THIRTY MILE RIDE, THE PADRES PICKED THEIR WAY DOWN THE ROCKY NORTH SLOPE OF THE KAIBAB PLATEAU TOWARD THE LIGHT OF PAIUTE CAMPFIRES NEAR WHAT IS NOW COYOTE SPRING, 15 MILES NORTH. THE TIMID NATIVES FLED THE APPROACHING SPANIARDS. NO WHITE MAN HAD EVER BEEN IN THIS REGION BEFORE.
COAXED TO RETURN, THE INDIANS BROUGHT PINON NUTS AND TWO ROASTED RABBITS FOR THE HUNGRY EXPLORERS. DURING THE NIGHT, A MEDICINE MAN PERFORMED HIS HEALING RITUAL FOR AN AILING SPANIARD. DOMINGUEZ AND ESCALANTE WERE FURIOUS OVER A CATHOLIC’S PARTICIPATION IN THE PAGAN RITES. AFTER ADMONISHING THEIR COMPANION FOR HIS FRAIL FAITH, THE FATHERS IMPLORED THE INDIANS TO CEASE THEIR SUPERSTITIOUS CEREMONIES, BE BAPTIZED, AND EMBRACE CHRISTIANITY.
(CONT.)
US A89 MP 557 (CONT.)
THE DOMINGUEZ-ESCALANTE EXPEDITION WAS UNCOMMON IN THE HISTORY OF THE WEST. SEARCHING FOR A SAFE OVERLAND ROUTE FROM SANTA FE TO MONTEREY, THE PADRES WERE DETERMINED TO ESTABLISH RAPPORT WITH TRIBES ALONG THE WAY. THEY DID NOT REACH MONTEREY. HOWEVER, THEIR REGARD FOR THE NATIVES ALLOWED THEM TO TRAVEL THE 1700 MILES WITHOUT A SHOT BEING FIRED OR A WORD OF ANGER UTTERED BETWEEN SPANIARD AND INDIAN.
THIS MARKER WAS PLACED ON THE KAIBAB PLATEAU BY THE ARIZONA BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION - 1976.
US A89 MP 609 NO. 29
ERECTED SEPT. 2, 1933
PIPE SPRINGS NATIONAL MONUMENT
FIFTEEN MILES SOUTHWEST IS HISTORIC
PIPE SPRINGS EARLY PIONEER OUTPOST AND FIRST TELEGRAPH STATION IN ARIZONA
UTAH PIONEER TRAILS AND LANDMARKS ASSOCIATION
AND THE CITIZENS OF KANAB STAKE
US A89 MP 610 DOMINGUEZ AND ESCALANTE EXPEDITION
PRICKLY PEARS AND PINON NUTS
A WORN AND HUNGRY BAND OF SPANISH EXPLORERS MADE CAMP AT JOHNSON WASH, SIX MILES TO THE EAST, ON OCTOBER 21, 1776. FATHERS DOMINGUEZ AND ESCALANTE CALLED IT SANTA BARBARA. THEY FOUND NO WATER FOR HORSES OR THE MEN WHO WERE SUBSISTING ON MEAGER SUPPLIES OF PINON NUTS AND PRICKLY-PEAR CAKES OBTAINED IN TRADE FROM THE LOCAL PAIUTES.
THE SPANIARDS HAD ALREADY SPENT NIGHTS WITHOUT WATER AND ONLY MINIMAL NOURISHMENT. LORENZO DE OLIVARES WAS NEARLY MAD WITH THIRST AFTER EATING TOO MANY OF THE SALTY CACTUS CAKES. HE DISAPPEARED THAT EVENING STUMBLING UP THE WASH. HAVING WORRIED ABOUT THEIR COMPANION ALL NIGHT, THE PADRES FOUND HIM THE NEXT MORNING AT SOME SMALL POOLS NEAR THE BASE OF THE RED SHINARUMP CLIFFS TO THE NORTH.
(CONT.)
US A89 MP 610 (CONT.)
THE TERRITORY KNOWN AS THE ARIZONA STRIP CONFRONTED THE EXPEDITION WITH SOME OF ITS MOST BRUTAL DIFFICULTIES. WANDERING FIRST SOUTHEASTERLY THEN NORTH, WITHOUT THE AID OF NATIVE GUIDES, THEY STRUGGLED THROUGH A HARSH AND RUTTED LAND SEARCHING FOR THE UTE CROSSING OF THE COLORADO RIVER.
DOMINGUEZ AND ESCALANTE RETURNED TO SANTA FE IN JANUARY, 1777, AFTER EXPLORING MUCH OF WHAT IS NOW THE FOUR CORNERS REGION BUT HAVING FAILED IN THEIR EFFORT TO OPEN A LAND ROUTE TO SPANISH SETTLEMENTS AT MONTEREY.
THIS MONUMENT WAS PRESENTED TO THE TOWN OF FREDONIA BY THE ARIZONA BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION - 1976.
US A89 MP 612 BLUE STAR
MEMORIAL HIGHWAY
A TRIBUTE TO THE ARMED FORCES
THAT HAVE DEFENDED THE
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
SPONSORED BY
ARIZONA FEDERATION OF GARDEN CLUBS
IN COOPERATION WITH
ARIZONA STATE HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
SR 90 MP 314 FORT HUACHUCA
(1877)
SITUATED ON THE SOUTHERN ROUTE TO THE PACIFIC OCEAN. IT BROUGHT LAW AND ORDER TO THE ARIZONA TERRITORY, PROTECTING SETTLERS, MINERS, TRAVELERS AND IMMIGRANTS. IT’S TROOPS WON THE SURRENDER OF GERONIMO. GENERALS PERSHING AND WOOD SERVED HERE. AS THE ARMY’S ELECTRONIC PROVING GROUND HUACHUCA ALONE OF ALL OUR MILITARY POSTS REMAINS ON ACTIVE STATUS.
ERECTED BY THE ARIZONA SOCIETY
DAUGHTERS OF THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
1957
SR 90 MP 318 FORT HUACHUCA
ESTABLISHED IN 1877 AS THE SOUTHERN
LINK OF A MILITARY CHAIN ACROSS
ARIZONA TO PREVENT APACHE
FROM RAIDING INTO MEXICO. IT HAS
BEEN AN IMPORTANT TRAINING CENTER FOR
ARMY FIELD OPERATION FOR HALF A
CENTURY, GENERAL JOHN J. PERSHING
SERVED HERE AS A LIEUTENANT.
SR 90 MP 329 MORMON
L.D.S. CHURCH
BATTALION
CAMP SITE DEC. 1846
HERD
WILD HORSES & BLACK BULLS
ERECTED
BY POST # __
SR 92 MP 340 MORMON
LDS CHURCH
BATTALION
DEC 9, 1846
FIRST CAMP ON
SAN PEDRO
BEAR - ANTEPLOE
IN AREA
ERECTED 1960
BY TROOP 14
US 93 MP 028 GHOST TOWN OF WHITE HILLS
EIGHT MILES NORTHEAST ALONG THIS ROAD ARE THE RUINS OF WHITE HILLS, ONCE A MINING BOOM TOWN. A SIX-YEAR WONDER, FROM 1892 TO 1898 THE MINE PRODUCED 12 MILLION DOLLARS IN GOLD AND SILVER. THE MINERAL DISCOVERY WAS ONE OF THE FEW CREDITED TO AN INDIAN. A HUALAPAI NAMED JEFF. WHITE HILLS HAD TWELVE SALOONS AND TWO CEMETERIES. WATER WAS NEARLY AS EXPENSIVE AS WHISKEY.
US 93 MP 067 JUNCTION, UNION PASS ROAD
OVER WHICH PIONEERS FREIGHTED FROM HARDYVILLE, HEAD OF NAVIGATION ON THE COLORADO RIVER, TO MOHAVE AND YAVAPAI COUNTY SETTLEMENTS.
HARDYVILLE ESTABLISHED IN 1864, BY
“CAPT.” WM. H. HARDY
PIONEER, FERRYMAN, MERCHANT,
POSTMASTER, STOCKMAN, MINER,
TRAIL BLAZER, ROAD BUILDER
AND LEGISLATOR.
US 93 MP 123 BIG SANDY VALLEY
FIRST EXPLORATION, PROBABLY BY EARLY SPANISH EXPLORERS, ESPEJO, 1582-FRAFAN, 1589. EXPLORED BY PARTY UNDER LT. AMIEL W. WHIPPLE, 1854. IMPORTANT AGRICULTURAL, HORTICULTURAL, MINING, MILLING & SMELTING AREA IN EARLY DAYS. McCRACKIN MINE, DISCOVERED BY JACKSON McCRACKIN & H. A. (“CLORIDE JACK”) OWEN, AUG. 17, 1874, 18 MILES SOUTH. SIGNAL MINE 12 MILES SOUTH. STAMP MILLS AT GREENWOOD, 8 MILES SOUTHWEST & VIRGINIA CITY, 9 MILES SOUTHWEST. COFER HOT SPRINGS 3 MILES EAST.
HOME OF MOHAVE COUNTY LEGISLATORS
JOHN A. BEHAN
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1879
ADAMSON CORNWALL
COUNCIL, 1881, 1887
WALLACE A. (“JAKE”) NEAL JR.
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 1921
CARL KROOK
US 93 MP 160 BILL WILLIAMS RIVER
THE SANTA MARIA RIVER COMBINES WITH THE BIG SANDY TO FORM BILL WILLIAM RIVER, WHICH WAS EXPLORED AS EARLY AS 1605 BY SPANISH. NAMED FOR AN EARLY TRAPPER AND MOUNTAIN MAN, THE RIVER YIELDED BEAVER TO INTREPID TRAPPERS WHO CAME WEST FROM SANTA FE. THE COMBINED STREAM EMPTIES INTO THE COLORADO.
US 93 MP 174 CAMP DATE CREEK
(ESTABLISHED 1867)
IN 1871 THIS CAMP BECAME DATE CREEK AGENCY, WHERE MOHAVE-APACHES WERE GIVEN FOOD RATIONS IN VAIN ATTEMPTS TO STOP THEIR RAIDS. HERE, IN 1872 GENERAL CROOK’S TROOPS KILLED EIGHT INDIANS WHO WERE THOUGHT TO HAVE PARTICIPATED IN THE NOTORIOUS WICKENBURG MASSACRE OF A STAGECOACH.
SR 95 MP 234 OATMAN
FIFTEEN MILES EAST, IN THE BLACK MOUNTAINS. IS THE HISTORIC OATMAN MINING DISTRICT, MANY ORIGINAL BUILDINGS STILL EXIST IN THE GHOST TOWN SITE. THE TOM REED, UNITED EASTERN, GOLD ROAD AND OTHER MINES PRODUCED MORE THAN THIRTY MILLION DOLLARS OF GOLD FROM THE EARLY 1900’S INTO THE 1930’S.
SR 95 MP 247 BULLHEAD COMMUNITY PARK
COMMERCIAL STEAMSHIP TRANSPORTATION ON THE COLORADO RIVER WAS OF GREAT IMPORTANCE FROM 1852 THROUGH 1877. IT SERVED THE MINING COMMUNITIES OF NORTHERN ARIZONA. CARGO WAS UNLOADED AT HARDYVILLE, 1 1/2 MILES SOUTH OF THIS POINT, SOMETIMES RETURNING DOWNSTREAM WITH BARGE LOADS OF LOCAL ORE.
BULL’S HEAD ROCK, FROM WHICH BULLHEAD CITY DERIVED ITS NAME, WAS LOCATED UPSTREAM FROM THIS POINT AND SINCE 1953, HAS BEEN COVERED BY THE WATERS OF DAVIS DAM. IT WAS ONCE USED AS A NAVIGATION MARKER AND WAS LOCATED AT A POINT WHERE THE MOHAVE INDIANS FORDED THE RIVER, AS IT WAS FREE OF QUICKSAND. IN THIS BICENTENNIAL YEAR, 1976, THE CITIZENS OF THE BULLHEAD AREA DEDICATE THIS LANDMARK TO THE BULLHEAD COMMUNITY PARK IN COMMEMORATION TO THE PEOPLES OF YESTERDAY.
US 160 MP 344.3 UTAH PIONEERS TRAILS
NO. 77
ERECTED MAY 1938
IN HONOR OF GEORGE A. SMITH, JR.
A MEMBER OF JACOB HAMBLIN’S PARTY OF NINE MORMON MISSIONARIES AND EXPLORERS WHO WAS FATALLY WOUNDED WITH HIS OWN REVOLVER BY INDIANS NOVEMBER 2, 1880 PRESUMABLY TO AVENGE THE KILLING OF INDIANS BY WHITE MEN SHORTLY BEFORE. HE DIED WHILE BEING CARRIED ON HORSEBACK TO REACH MEDICAL AID. HIS COMPANIONS, TO SAVE THEIR OWN LIVES, WERE FORCED TO LEAVE HIS BODY WRAPPED IN A BLANKET UNBURIED.
SR 177 MP
SONORA, ARIZONA
IMMIGRANT MEXICAN MINERS WORKING
FOR THE RAY CONSOLIDATED COPPER
COMPANY NAMED THE TOWN OF SONORA
BUILT NEAR HERE IN 1911. IT BOOMED AS
A THRIVING, DYNAMIC COMMUNITY, RICH IN
MEXICAN CULTURE, LANGUAGE AND
TRADITIONS. IN THE MID – 1950S, THE
COMPANY BEGAN TO EXPAND ITS OPEN PIT
OPERATION, GRADUALLY ADVANCING UPON
THE TOWN FROM THE EAST. BY 1965, IT
BECAME NECESSARY TO CLOSE SONORA
AND RELOCATE THE MINERS TO A NEW
TOWN NAMED KEARNY. SONORA WAS
DEMOLISHED IN 1966.
SONORA’S CLOSE – KNIT RESIDENTS SHARED
COMMON BONDS OF FAMILY, FRIENDSHIP AND
THE DREAM OF A BETTER LIFE. ALTHOUGH
THEY WERE MOVED AND SCATTERED, MANY
WENT ON TO FULFILL THEIR DREAMS,
BECOMING SUCCESSDFUL IN BUSINESS, PUBLIC
SERVICE, AND EDUCATION. THE TOWN OF
SONORA CONTINUES TO LIVE IN THE MEMORIES
OF THE ORIGINAL SETTLERS AND THEIR
DESCENDANTS.
ADOT 1999
SR 179 MP 301.6
BEAVERHEAD STAGE STATION
(NO TEXT AVAILABLE)
US 180 MP 380
LYMAN DAM
ON THE LITTLE COLORADO RIVER
THE ORIGINAL DAM AT THIS SITE WAS DESTROYED IN THE SPRING FLOODS OF APRIL 1915, WITH THE LOSS OF EIGHT LIVES AND SEVERE DAMAGE TO FARMLANDS. IT WAS REBUILT WITH LOANS FROM THE STATE OF ARIZONA.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
1961
US 180 MP 427
HERE STOOD
THE OLD BUSHVALLEY FORT
BUILT 1879
FOR PROTECTION AGAINST
RENEGADE APACHES
SR 181 MP 064
SACRED TO THE MEMORY OF THESE PIONEERS THEY CAME WHEN ONLY THE BRAVE DARED COME:
THEY STAYED WHERE ONLY THE VALIANT COULD STAY.
BORN IN SWEDEN. AMERICANS BY CHOICE-NOT BY ACCIDENT OF BIRTH. THEY LOVED THEIR ADOPTED COUNTRY AND SERVED HER WELL.
NEIL
SERVED FIVE YEARS IN THE ARMY DURING THE
INDIAN WARS AND THEN TWENTY FIVE YEARS AS AN OFFICER IN THE UNITED STATES FOREST SERVICE.
EMMA SOPHIA
AS WIFE, MOTHER, FRIEND, GOD’S SPIRIT WAS IMBUED WITHIN HER. PERILS OF INDIAN WARFARE, INCESSANT TOIL AND LONELINESS OF A PIONEER LAND - NOTHING DAUNTED HER, THIS VALIANT LADY, OUR MOTHER.
THEY CARVED A HOME FROM THE WILDERNESS
WITH THE WARP OF LABOR AND THE WOOF OF DREAMS THEY WOVE A PATTERN OF LIFE AS BEAUTIFUL AS THE SUNSETS AND AS ENDURING AS THE MOUNTAINS THEY LOVED SO WELL.
SR 188 MP 242 AL SEIBER
“AL SEIBER, VETERAN OF THE CIVIL WAR, AND FOR TWENTY YEARS A LEADER OF SCOUTS FOR THE U. S. ARMY IN ARIZONA INDIAN TROUBLES, WAS KILLED ON THIS SPOT FEBRUARY 19, 1907 BY A ROLLING ROCK DURING CONSTRUCTION OF TONTO ROAD. HIS BODY IS BURIED IN THE CEMETARY AT GLOBE.”
US 191 MP 038 CHIRICAHUA
NATIONAL MONUMENT
“THE WONDERLAND OF ROCKS”
AN OLD LAVA FLOW HAS BEEN
ERODED UNTIL THOUSANDS OF
PINNACLES-BALANCED ROCKS-
AND GROTESQUE ROCK FORMS
CROWD CANYONS AND MOUN-
TAIN SLOPES-THESE MOUNTAINS
WERE THE HOME OF THE CHIRI-
CAHUA APACHE-MOST FAMOUS
OF WHOM WAS GERONIMO---
CAMGROUND AND MUSEUM-
THE DONS
US 191 MP 163 SAN FRANCISCO RIVER
IN JANUARY OF 1825, A TRAPPER NAMED JAMES D. PATTIE, ASCENDED THIS RIVER AND WITH ONE COMPANION IN 14 DAYS TRAPPED 250 BEAVERS. THIS WAS THE FIRST KNOWN PENETRATION OF ARIZONA BY AMERICAN CITIZENS.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
1962
US 191 MP 164 CLIFTON CLIFF JAIL
BLASTED FROM LIVING ROCK, THIS JAIL
CONFINED MANY OF THE BAD MEN WHO
CROWDED INTO THE DISTRICT IN THE
BOOM DAYS. LOCAL TRADITION SAYS THAT
THE FIRST INMATE IN 1881 WAS THE
MINER WHO BUILT THE JAIL. IT WAS
CONTRIBUTED TO THE TOWN BY THE
LESINSKY BROTHERS WHO BUILT THE
FIRST COPPER SMELTER ON CHASE CREEK.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
A.H.D.
1962
US 191 MP 170 RUINS OF METCALF
FIRST CLAIMS LOCATED
HERE IN 1872
ARIZONA CENTRAL YANKIE AND MONTEZUMA CLAIMS WERE LATER GROUPED WITH SHANNON AND LONG FELLOW MINES TO FORM COPPER MOUNTAIN MINING DISTRICT. H. A. AND CHARLES LESINSKY IN 1873 BUILT THE FIRST SMELTER AND THEN ARIZONA’S FIRST RAILROAD, A NARROW GAUGE LINE RUNNING UP CHASE CREEK CANYON.
US 191 MP 233 CLIFTON - SPRINGERVILLE
HIGHWAY
“THE CORONADO TRAIL”
DEDICATED JUNE 19th 1926
SR 260 MP 234 GENERAL CROOK TRAIL
13 MILE ROCK
EACH MILE WAS MARKED ON THIS TRAIL FROM CAMP VERDE TO CAMP APACHE BY THE SOLDIERS UNDER GENERAL GEORGE CROOK, CONQUEROR, BUT ALSO FRIEND OF THE INDIANS. FIRST TRAVERSED IN 1871, THE ROAD WAS IMPROVED AND USED BY WAGONS IN 1874. IT WAS THE PRINCIPAL SUPPLY ROUTE FROM FORT WHIPPLE, AT PRESCOTT, TO CAMP VERDE AND CAMP APACHE.
CAMP VERDE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
COCONINO NATIONAL FOREST
SR 260 MP 268 ZANE GREY’S CABIN
AN OHIO BORN DENTIST, ZANE GREY SPENT MANY YEARS UNDER THE MOGOLLON RIM, WRITING “TO THE LAST MAN” AND A DOZEN OTHER WESTERNS WITH ARIZONA SETTINGS AND CHARACTERS. HIS PROLIFIC WRITINGS POPULARIZED THE AMERICAN COWBOY AS A TACITURN, ROMANTIC FIGURE.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1964
SR 260 MP 357 COOLEY MOUNTAIN
NAMED FOR CORYDON E. COOLEY, A VIRGINIAN WHO WAS AN OFFICER IN THE NEW MEXICO UNION VOLUNTEERS IN THE CIVIL WAR: ALSO A GUIDE, SCOUT AND INDIAN INTERPRETER. HE SERVED THE U.S. ARMY IN CAMPAIGNS AGAINST THE APACHES, YET WAS RESPECTED AS A FRIEND BY THE NATIVES. HE MARRIED MOLLIE, AN APACHE GIRL AND WAS CO-FOUNDER OF SHOW LOW. COOLEY’S CIENEGA RANCH BECAME THE TOWN OF McNARY.
SR 264 MP 323 NEAR HERE IN 1879
MORMON COLONISTS BUILT
ARIZONA’S FIRST
WOOLEN MILL
HOPING TO UTILIZE HOPI AND NAVAJO WOOL AND LABOR,THE MORMONS INTENDED TO BUILD A NEW INDUSTRY TO SUPPLY THE EARLY SETTLERS. THE 192 - SPINDLE MILL OPERATED ONLY A SHORT TIME, ITS ABANDONMENT SIGNALING FAILURE OF THE MISSIONARY MOVEMENT AMONG THE HOPI’S.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
1965
SR 264 MP 472 CHIEF HASTELE
CIRCA 1810 - 1890
IN MEMORY OF CHIEF HASTELE, THE GREAT NAVAJO LEADER WHO PROVED HIMSELF A TRUE FRIEND OF THE MORMON PEOPLE IN BRINGING PEACE AND GOODWILL TO BOTH ANGLOS AND INDIANS.
HE WAS AN HONORED FRIEND OF JACOB HAMBLIN, FAMED LATTER-DAY MISSIONARY, INDIAN GUIDE, PEACEMAKER, SOMETIMES KNOWN AS THE “BUCKSKIN APOSTLE”, CHIEF HASTELE WAS ALSO FAMED FOR HIS INTEGRITY AND DEEP CONCERN FOR TRUTH. THIS EXEMPLIFIED IN HIS OFT-QUOTED STATEMENT , “MY HEART IS CLEAN”.
OFFICIAL MARKER
UTAH PIONEER
TRAIL AND LANDMARKS ASSOCIATION
SR 287 MP 139 GHOST TOWN OF
ADAMSVILLE
IN THE 1870’S, A FLOUR MILL AND A FEW STORES FORMED THE HUB OF LIFE IN ADAMSVILLE, WHERE SHOOTINGS AND KNIFINGS WERE COMMONPLACE, AND LIFE WAS ONE OF THE CHEAPEST COMMODITIES. MOST OF THE ADOBE HOUSES HAVE BEEN WASHED AWAY BY THE FLOODING GILA RIVER.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
ARIZONA HIGHWAY DEPARTMENT
IN TUCSON MILITARY PLAZA
THIS AREA WAS OCCUPIED BY THE CALIFORNIA VOLUNTEERS ON MAY 20, 1862 AFTER THE CONFEDERATE TROOPS HAD WITHDRAWN FROM TUCSON. IT BECAME THE ORIGINAL CAMP LOWELL IN 1866, SUPPLY HEADQUARTERS FOR SOUTHERN ARIZONA UNTIL A LARGER POST WAS BUILT SEVEN MILES NORTHEAST ON RILLETO CREEK IN 1873.
IN TUCSON MISSION SAN JOSE DEL TUCSON
BUILT BETWEEN 1775 AND 1780 BY THE FRANCISCANS TO SERVE AS CHURCH AND INDUSTRIAL ARTS SCHOOL FOR PIMA AND PAPAGO RESIDENTS OF THE AREA. ALSO KNOWN AS SAN COSME DEL TUCSON.
POSSIBLY THE FIRST CHURCH SCHOOL IN ARIZONA THAT TAUGHT USEFUL ARTS AS WELL AS CHRISTIANITY.
ARIZONA DEVELOPMENT BOARD
- 1957 -
IN TUCSON SITE OF ARIZONA’S
SECOND TERRITORIAL CAPITOL
AN ADOBE BUILDING AT THIS SITE HOUSED
ARIZONA’S GOVERNMENT FROM 1868 - 1877,
WHEN TUCSON WAS CAPITOL OF THE
TERRITORY. ONE OF THE MEETING ROOMS
OF THIS SECOND TERRITORIAL CAPITOL
BECAME THE HOME OF THE PIONEER
DRACHMAN FAMILY.